HSK 6 · Nature

蕴藏 yùncáng “to hold in store” in Chinese

Traditional 蘊藏

What 蕴藏 means

  1. to hold in store
  2. to contain (reserves)
  3. to contain (untapped reserves etc)

How to say 蕴藏

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale蕴yùn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale藏cáng2nd tone, rising

蕴藏 in a sentence

  1. 这片土地下蕴藏着丰富的石油。

    Zhè piàn tǔdì xià yùncáng zhe fēngfù de shíyóu.

    Rich oil reserves lie beneath this land.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 孩子身上蕴藏着很大的潜力。

    Háizi shēnshang yùncáng zhe hěn dà de qiánlì.

    Children have enormous potential within them.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 蕴藏 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 蕴 (yùn) with each of its parts in a different colour
蕴yùnto accumulate
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 缊tangled hemp · yūnSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 缊 (yūn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yùn.

The character 藏 (cáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
藏cángto conceal
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 臧good · zāngSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 臧 (zāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cáng.

How to write 蕴藏

蕴 15 strokes · 藏 17 strokes

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

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

Words related to 蕴藏

Words with 藏

躲藏duǒcáng · to conceal oneself收藏shōucáng · to collect

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FAQs

蕴藏 (yùncáng) means “to hold in store” or “to contain (reserves)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yùncáng: yùn with a 4th tone, then cáng 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, 蕴藏 is written 蘊藏. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yuncang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 蕴藏 from the suggestions. Typing yuncang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
蕴藏 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.