HSK 6 · Nature

丛 cóng “clump” in Chinese

Traditional 叢

What 丛 means

  1. clump
  2. thicket
  3. cluster
  4. collection
  5. collection of books

How to say 丛

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale丛cóng2nd tone, rising

丛 in a sentence

  1. 蜜蜂在花丛中飞行。

    Mìfēng zài huācóng zhōng fēixíng.

    Bees are flying among the flowers.

    Sentence #1394863 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我躲在高草丛里了。

    Wǒ duǒ zài gāo cǎocóng lǐ le.

    I hid in the tall grass.

    Sentence #8936488 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 狮子是丛林之王。

    Shīzi shì cónglín zhī wáng.

    The lion is the king of the jungle.

    Sentence #2788397 from Tatoeba

How 丛 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 丛 (cóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
丛cóngcluster
  • 从from · cóngSound part
  • 一one · yīMeaning part

一 hints at the meaning (one); 从 (cóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cóng.

How to write 丛

丛 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 丛

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FAQs

丛 (cóng) means “clump” or “thicket”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cóng: cóng with a 2nd 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, 丛 is written 叢. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 丛 from the suggestions. Typing cong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
丛 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.