汪
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expanse of water; ooze; (onom.) bark; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
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Dict coverage rank #2,549 U+6C6A
How 汪 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 王 (phonetic, wáng)
How to remember it
tearful · Heisig RSH #1605
水 water + jewel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 王
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 王 (wáng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 王 sound component | wáng | king, ruler; royal; surname |
| 狂 | kuáng | insane, mad; violent; wild |
| 往 | wǎng | to go, to depart; past, former |
| 旺 | wàng | to flourish, to prosper; prosperous |
| 枉 | wǎng | useless, in vain; crooked, bent |
| 匡 | kuāng | to correct, to revise; to restore |
Words containing 汪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汪星人 | wāng xīng rén | dog (Internet slang) |
| 汪清县 | Wāng qīng Xiàn | Wangqing, a county in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州|延边朝鲜族自治州[Yan2 bian1 Ch… |
| 汪东城 | Wāng Dōng chéng | Jiro Wang (1981-), Taiwanese singer and actor |
| 单身汪 | dān shēn wāng | (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatin… |
| 汪精卫 | Wāng Jīng wèi | Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), Chinese politician who later collaborated with Japan during Worl… |
| 留尼汪 | Liú ní wāng | Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) |
| 汪清 | Wāng qīng | see 汪清縣|汪清县[Wang1 qing1 Xian4] |
| 汪洋 | wāng yáng | vast body of water; CL:片[pian4] |
| 贾汪区 | Jiǎ wāng Qū | Jiawang, a district of Xuzhou City 徐州市[Xu2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 汪道涵 | Wāng Dào hán | Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiw… |
| 水汪汪 | shuǐ wāng wāng | watery; waterlogged (soil); limpid; bright and intelligent (eyes) |
| 油汪汪 | yóu wāng wāng | dripping with oil |
| 姓蒋还是姓汪 | xìng Jiǎng hái shi xìng Wāng | friend or foe? (quote from 沙家浜[Sha1 jia1 bang1]) (蔣|蒋[Jiang3] here refers to Chiang Kai-sh… |
| 汪啸风 | Wāng Xiào fēng | Wang Xiaofeng (1944-), fourth governor of Hainan |
| 泪汪汪 | lèi wāng wāng | tearful; brimming with tears |
| 贾汪 | Jiǎ wāng | see 賈汪區|贾汪区[Jia3 wang1 Qu1] |
| 汪汪 | wāng wāng | gleaming with tears; woof woof (sound of a dog barking); (literary) (of a body of water) b… |