HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Adverbs

仍 réng “still” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 仍 means

  1. still
  2. yet
  3. to remain

How to say 仍

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale仍réng2nd tone, rising

仍 in a sentence

  1. 我仍是这里的老板。

    Wǒ réng shì zhèlǐ de lǎobǎn.

    I’m still the boss here.

    Sentence #3770552 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 它仍可能会发生。

    Tā réng kěnéng huì fāshēng.

    It still could happen.

    Sentence #9959704 from Tatoeba

  3. 我仍然记得他的名字。

    Wǒ réngrán jìde tā de míngzi.

    I still remember his name.

    Sentence #651241 from Tatoeba

How 仍 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.

How to write 仍

仍 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 仍

Words with 仍

仍然réngrán · still仍旧réngjiù · still

More words: Adverbs & Degree

就是jiùshì · exactly已yǐ · already好好hǎohǎo · properly再次zàicì · once again仅jǐn · only更加gèngjiā · even more共gòng · altogether实际上shíjìshàng · in fact

FAQs

仍 (réng) means “still” or “yet”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it réng: réng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 仍 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type reng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 仍 from the suggestions. Typing reng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
仍 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older 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.