Meaning
cluster; collection; collection of books; thicket
Chinese: 聚集在一起的草木或人事物。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “cong” becomes a different word in each tone. 丛 is the 2nd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 丛林cóng línjungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery
- 人丛rén cóngcrowd of people
- 丛生cóng shēnggrowing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
- 丛书cóng shūa series of books; a collection of books
- 丛集cóng jíto crowd together; to pile up; to cluster; (book) collection
Example Sentence
花丛中飞来了几只蝴蝶。Huā cóng zhōng fēi lái le jǐ zhī hú dié.A few butterflies flew into the flower clusters.
花丛Huā cóngcluster of flowers中zhōngmiddle飞fēito fly来láito come了le(completed action)几jǐsmall table只zhīonly蝴蝶hú diébutterfly。