HSK 6 · Verbs

晃 huàng “to sway” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 晃 means

  1. to sway
  2. to shake
  3. to rock
  4. to wander about

How to say 晃

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale晃huàng4th tone, falling

晃 in a sentence

  1. 桌子为什么这么晃？

    Zhuōzi wèishénme zhème huàng?

    Why is the table so wobbly?

    Sentence #10201137 from Tatoeba

  2. 建筑物在地震中摇晃。

    Jiànzhùwù zài dìzhèn zhōng yáohuàng.

    The buildings swayed in the earthquake.

    Sentence #332668 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他上下晃了晃头。

    Tā shàngxià huàng le huàng tóu.

    He bobbed his head up and down.

    Sentence #8739360 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晃 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 晃 (huàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
晃huàngto sway
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 光light · guāngSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 光 (guāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with huàng.

How to write 晃

晃 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 晃

More words: Common Verbs

过滤guòlǜ · to filter捍卫hànwèi · to defend合并hébìng · to merge划分huàfēn · to divide缓和huǎnhé · to ease还原huányuán · to restore回避huíbì · to avoid毁灭huǐmiè · to destroy

FAQs

晃 (huàng) means “to sway” or “to shake”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huàng: huàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晃 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晃 from the suggestions. Typing huang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晃 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.