宠
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to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 寵
- Common rank
- #2,130
- Unicode
- U+5BA0
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
dote on · Heisig RSH #2933
house + 龙 dragon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 宠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宠物门 | pet door; pet flap | |
| 丁宠家庭 | double income family who have pets rather than children (see also 丁克[ding1 ke4]) | |
| 受宠若惊 | overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.) | |
| 宠儿 | pet; favorite; darling | |
| 宠物 | house pet | |
| 新宠 | current favorite; the latest thing; darling (of the market or the media etc) | |
| 得宠 | to be a favorite; favor | |
| 宠信 | to dote on and trust | |
| 纳宠 | to take a concubine | |
| 失宠 | to lose favor; in disfavor; disgraced | |
| 宠爱 | to dote on sb | |
| 受宠 | to receive favor (from superior); favored; pampered | |
| 宠粉 | to reward one's fans with special treatment | |
| 争宠 | to strive for favor | |
| 恩宠 | special favor from a ruler; Emperor's generosity towards a favorite | |
| 哗众取宠 | sensationalism; vulgar claptrap to please the crowds; playing to the gallery; demagogy | |
| 偏宠 | to favor; to prefer; to show favoritism | |
| 宠擅专房 | an especially favored concubine (idiom) | |
| 宠坏 | to spoil (a child etc) | |
| 宠臣 | favored minister |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 龙 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龙 sound part | dragon; symbol of the emperor | |
| 笼 | basket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum | |
| 拢 | to collect, to bring together | |
| 聋 | deaf | |
| 陇 | a mountain located in the Shanxi provice | |
| 垄 | grave, mound; furrow, ridge | |
| 珑 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 泷 | raining; wet, soaked; rapids; a river in Guangdong | |
| 胧 | blurry, obscured; the condition or appearance of the moon | |
| 茏 | tall grass; water-weeds | |
| 咙 | throat | |
| 眬 | faint, fuzzy, blurry | |
| 砻 | millstone; to grind, to mill | |
| 垅 | grave, mound; furrow, ridge | |
| 栊 | cage, pen; grating |