HSK 5 · Adjectives

浓 nóng “concentrated” in Chinese

Traditional 濃

What 浓 means

  1. concentrated
  2. dense
  3. strong (smell etc)

How to say 浓

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale浓nóng2nd tone, rising

浓 in a sentence

  1. 这咖啡对我来说太浓了。

    Zhè kāfēi duì wǒ lái shuō tài nóng le.

    This coffee is too strong for me.

    Sentence #463907 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 浓雾使道路很难看清。

    Nóng wù shǐ dàolù hěn nán kànqīng.

    The thick fog made it hard to see the road.

    Sentence #344858 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 小林的眉毛长得浓，眼睛又大，睫毛很长。

    Xiǎo Lín de méimao zhǎng de nóng, yǎnjing yòu dà, jiémáo hěn cháng.

    Xiao Lin has thick eyebrows, big eyes and long eyelashes.

    Sentence #420898 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 浓 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 浓 (nóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
浓nóngconcentrated
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 农agriculture · nóngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 农 (nóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with nóng.

How to write 浓

浓 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 浓

Words with 浓

浓厚nónghòu · strong

More words: Adjectives

模糊móhu · vague陌生mòshēng · strange嫩nèn · young and tender能干nénggàn · capable片面piànmiàn · one-sided平píng · flat平等píngděng · equal平静píngjìng · calm

FAQs

浓 (nóng) means “concentrated” or “dense”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it nóng: nóng 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, 浓 is written 濃. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type nong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 浓 from the suggestions. Typing nong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
浓 is an HSK 5 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.