yóng = yu + (e)ng2
breathing (of fish)
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How to pronounce 喁

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= yu initial

Yu is for Yu the Great who tamed the floods.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
+ (e)ng2 final

In the engine’s kitchen.

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喁 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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ǒu = Ø + ou3
archaic variant of 偶[ou3]
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= yu + Ø2
ancient area
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= yu + Ø4
legendary monkey of ancient China
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Characters with 喁 as component

喁 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 喁

looking up expectantly / speaking softly (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [yu2 yu2])

Sentences with 喁

喁 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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yóng

breathing (of fish)

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