HSK 6 · Nature

汹涌 xiōngyǒng “surging” in Chinese

Traditional 洶湧

What 汹涌 means

  1. surging
  2. turbulent (of water)
  3. to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc)
  4. turbulent

How to say 汹涌

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale汹xiōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale涌yǒng3rd tone, dipping

汹涌 in a sentence

  1. 下大雨以后，河水十分汹涌。

    Xià dàyǔ yǐhòu, héshuǐ shífēn xiōngyǒng.

    After the heavy rain, the river was surging.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 海浪汹涌，今天不能出海。

    Hǎilàng xiōngyǒng, jīntiān bùnéng chūhǎi.

    The waves are too rough to go out to sea today.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 汹涌 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 汹 (xiōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
汹xiōngtorrential rush
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 凶culprit · xiōngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 凶 (xiōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiōng.

The character 涌 (yǒng) with each of its parts in a different colour
涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 甬path · tǒngSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 甬 (tǒng) hints at the sound. Compare it with yǒng.

How to write 汹涌

汹 7 strokes · 涌 10 strokes

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

Words related to 汹涌

Words with 涌

涌现yǒngxiàn · to emerge

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FAQs

汹涌 (xiōngyǒng) means “surging” or “turbulent (of water)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiōngyǒng: xiōng with a 1st tone, then yǒng with a 3rd 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, 汹涌 is written 洶湧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiongyong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 汹涌 from the suggestions. Typing xiongyong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
汹涌 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.