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旺

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prosperous; flourishing; (of flowers) blooming; (of fire) roaring

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HSK 3.0
Level 6
Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
8
Radical
日 +4
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
旺
Common rank
#1,815
Unicode
U+65FA

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Formation & memory

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How 旺 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

日 meaning “sun” + 王 sound ( wáng )

Components 日 王

How to remember it

thriving · Heisig RSH #1602

王 king + sun

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 旺

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
普罗旺斯语 Pǔ luó wàng sī yǔ Provençal (language)
旺波日山 Wàng bō rì shān Mt Wangbur, Dagzê county 達孜縣|达孜县[Da2 zi1 xian4], Lhasa, Tibet
普罗旺斯 Pǔ luó wàng sī Provence (south of France)
兴旺发达 xīng wàng fā dá prosperous and developing; flourishing
阿斯旺 Ā sī wàng Aswan (town in south Egypt)
人丁兴旺 rén dīng xīng wàng (idiom) to be a flourishing family with many descendants
那空沙旺 Nà kōng shā wàng Paknampho city, Thailand
人财两旺 rén cái liǎng wàng thriving; (of a city) populous and wealthy; (of a family) large and prosperous
毛血旺 máo xuè wàng duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
阴虚火旺 yīn xū huǒ wàng an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
阿斯旺高坝 Ā sī wàng gāo bà the Aswan dam in south Egypt
留尼旺 Liú ní wàng Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
汤旺县 Tāng wàng Xiàn Tangwang, a county in Yichun City 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 Shi4], Heilongjiang
旺子 wàng zi (dialect) blood tofu (coagulated animal blood)
阿旺曲培 Ā wàng Qū péi Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-199…
旺来 wàng lái (Tw) pineapple (from Taiwanese 王梨, Tai-lo pr. [ông-lâi])
油尖旺 Yóu jiān wàng Yau Tsim Mong district of Kowloon, Hong Kong
旺角 Wàng Jiǎo Mong Kok (area in Hong Kong)
血旺 xuè wàng (dialect) blood tofu (coagulated animal blood)
旺月 wàng yuè busy (business) month

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 王 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
王 sound part wáng king, ruler; royal; surname
狂 kuáng insane, mad; violent; wild
往 wǎng to go, to depart; past, former
枉 wǎng useless, in vain; crooked, bent
汪 wāng vast, extensive, deep; surname
匡 kuāng to correct, to revise; to restore