汪
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expanse of water; ooze; (onom.) bark; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 水 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 汪
- Common rank
- #2,549
- Unicode
- U+6C6A
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tearful · Heisig RSH #1605
水 water + jewel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 汪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汪星人 | dog (Internet slang) | |
| 汪清县 | 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 | Jiro Wang (1981-), Taiwanese singer and actor | |
| 单身汪 | (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatin… | |
| 汪精卫 | Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), Chinese politician who later collaborated with Japan during Worl… | |
| 留尼汪 | Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) | |
| 汪清 | see 汪清縣|汪清县[Wang1 qing1 Xian4] | |
| 汪洋 | vast body of water; CL:片[pian4] | |
| 贾汪区 | Jiawang, a district of Xuzhou City 徐州市[Xu2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 汪道涵 | Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiw… | |
| 水汪汪 | watery; waterlogged (soil); limpid; bright and intelligent (eyes) | |
| 油汪汪 | dripping with oil | |
| 姓蒋还是姓汪 | friend or foe? (quote from 沙家浜[Sha1 jia1 bang1]) (蔣|蒋[Jiang3] here refers to Chiang Kai-sh… | |
| 汪啸风 | Wang Xiaofeng (1944-), fourth governor of Hainan | |
| 泪汪汪 | tearful; brimming with tears | |
| 贾汪 | see 賈汪區|贾汪区[Jia3 wang1 Qu1] | |
| 汪汪 | gleaming with tears; woof woof (sound of a dog barking); (literary) (of a body of water) b… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 王 — compare how they read.