HSK 6 · Function Words

仍旧 réngjiù “still” in Chinese

Traditional 仍舊

What 仍旧 means

  1. still
  2. as before
  3. still (remaining)
  4. to remain (the same)
  5. yet

How to say 仍旧

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale仍réng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale旧jiù4th tone, falling

仍旧 in a sentence

  1. 我仍旧无法相信我居然做了这种事。

    Wǒ réngjiù wúfǎ xiāngxìn wǒ jūrán zuò le zhè zhǒng shì.

    I still can’t believe I actually did that.

    Sentence #4866939 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 仍旧 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 仍 (réng) with each of its parts in a different colour
仍réngstill; yet
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénSound part
  • 乃then · nǎiMeaning part

乃 hints at the meaning (then); 亻 (rén) hints at the sound. Compare it with réng.

The character 旧 (jiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
旧jiùold
  • 丨line · gǔn
  • 日sun · rì

How to write 仍旧

仍 4 strokes · 旧 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

仍旧 (réngjiù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 仍旧 (réngjiù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 仍旧

Words with 仍

仍réng · still仍然réngrán · still

Words with 旧

旧jiù · old陈旧chénjiù · outdated依旧yījiù · as before

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FAQs

仍旧 (réngjiù) means “still” or “as before”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it réngjiù: réng with a 2nd tone, then jiù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 仍旧 is written 仍舊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type rengjiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 仍旧 from the suggestions. Typing rengjiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
仍旧 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.