王 (wong4 wong6 | wang2) : king; ruler; royal

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王

wong4 wong6

wang2

[1] [n] king; ruler; royal [2] [n] prince, the highest rank of nobility [3] great; of a tremendous size [4] the strongest or most powerful [5] a salutation of respect [6] an audience with the ruler or emperor [7] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 玉 (#96)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

王

Don't confuse with:
壬玉

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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王國 wong4 gwok3 wang2 guo2 = kingdom

王子 wong4 zi2 wang2 zi3 = prince

國王 gwok3 wong4 = king; emperor; monarch

花王 faa1 wong4 hua1 wang2 = gardener

王位 wong4 wai6 = throne

天王星 tin1 wong4 sing1 = Uranus

海王星 hoi2 wong4 sing1 = Neptune

冥王星 ming4/5 wong4 sing1 = Pluto

蛇王 se4 wong4 = lazy; a lazy person 粵

橋王 kiu4*2 wong4 = trickster, conman 粵
See all 105 compounds (CantoDict reports 112 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 5 examples containing 王

王先生後日就返啦。粵
Mr. Wong will be coming back the day after tomorrow.

王先生是我爸爸的好朋友。國
Mr. Wong is a good friend of my father.

點解一加一等於「王」？粵
why does one plus one equal '王'?
[This is a well known riddle, the character 王 being composed of two 一 characters at the top and bottom with a + in the middle!]

王先生要經廣州前往桂林。
Mr Wong wants to go to Guilin via Guangzhou.

國王認為他是傻瓜國
The king believed he was a fool.
[ie: another man was a fool, not the king!]

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 王
Unicode code for this character: U+738b (off-site link)

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