王 (wong4 wong6 | wang2 wang4) : king; monarch; duke; surname

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

王

wong4 wong6

wang2 wang4

[粵] wong4 | [國] wang2
[1] [n] king; monarch; ruler
[2] [n] duke; prince; head of a gang
[3] [n] largest, best or strongest of its kind
[4] [n] a Chinese family name

[粵] wong6 | [國] wang4
[v] [archaic] govern; rule

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

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 word has been viewed 24676 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 23rd Aug 2020 21:20

Output this character as a high resolution image

街頭霸王 gaai1 tau4 baa3 wong4 = The Street Fighter video game

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

白馬王子 baak6 maa5 wong4 zi2 bai2 ma3 wang2 zi3 = a "prince charming"

霸王花 baa3 wong4 faa1 ba4 wang2 hua1 = tough woman; tough policewoman

王朝 wong4 ciu4 wang2 chao2 = dynasty; imperial court

大王 daai6 wong4 da4 wang2 = king, magnate; person having expert skill in something

君王 gwan1 wong4 jun1 wang2 = monarch; soverign
See all 117 compounds (CantoDict reports 124 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!]

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/340/]王[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/340/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">王</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 王
Unicode code for this character: U+738b (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum