IDENTITY
泳yǒngto swim
HSK 2Top 1350
CORE MEANING
to swim
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to swim (in compounds)HSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵永
- water
- gives the sound yǒng
USAGE
Common words
游泳yóuyǒngto swim
泳衣yǒngyīswimsuit
Graded examples
游泳对身体很好。Yóuyǒng duì shēntǐ hěn hǎo.HSK3
Swimming is very good for health.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 永
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) that never (永) ends — swimming in the long current.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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