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浓重

nóngzhòng

thick; heavy; strong

A boat with a red bow is wrapped in thick fog on a lake.
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Characters in this word

浓 nóng

Strokes
9
Radical
氵 — water
Made of
氵 water 农 agriculture, farming
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

重 zhòng

Strokes
9
Radical
里 — inside
Made of
千 thousand 里 inside
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 清晨的山谷被浓重的雾气笼罩,能见度不足十米。 Qīngchén de shāngǔ bèi nóngzhòng de wùqì lǒngzhào, néngjiàndù bùzú shí mǐ. In the early morning, the valley was shrouded in thick fog, with visibility of less than ten metres.
  • 他说话带着浓重的口音,我有点听不懂。 Tā shuōhuà dàizhe nóngzhòng de kǒuyīn, wǒ yǒudiǎn tīng bù dǒng. He speaks with a heavy accent and I can't quite understand him.
  • 厨房里有一股浓重的油烟味。 Chúfáng lǐ yǒu yì gǔ nóngzhòng de yóuyān wèi. There is a heavy smell of cooking fumes in the kitchen.

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