yōng

Traditional: 擁

拥 (yōng) is a Chinese word meaning “to hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm”.

Meanings

  1. 1to hold in one's arms; to embrace
  2. 2to surround; to gather around
  3. 3to throng; to swarm
  4. 4(bound form) to support (as in 擁護|拥护[yong1 hu4])
  5. 5(literary) to have; to possess
  6. 6Taiwan pr. [yong3]

Related words

拥有to have; to possess; to own拥抱to embrace拥挤crowded拥护to endorse; to support蜂拥而至to arrive in huge numbers拥堵(of traffic) to become congested蜂拥to swarm; to flock; to throng拥挤不堪overcrowded拥戴to give one's allegiance簇拥to crowd around一拥而上to swarm around拥塞to be clogged up

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