熔 (róng): to smelt, to fuse
熔 (róng) is a Chinese character meaning “to smelt.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 火 (structural) and 容 (structural). It ranks #2743 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 熔 to form 容 hot metal 火; 容 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 火 (fire) appears in many related characters such as 火 (huǒ, fire), 烟 (yān, smoke), 烧 (shāo, to burn, to cook).
Definitions
- to smelt
- to fuse
Etymology & Origin
ideographicTo form 容 hot metal 火; 容 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰火容 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 熔岩noun | róng yán | (geology) lava |
| 熔化verb | róng huà | to melt (of ice, metals etc) |
| 熔炉 | róng lú | smelting furnace |
| 熔解verb | róng jiě | fusion |
| 熔融verb | róng róng | to melt |
| 熔炼verb | róng liàn | to smelt |
| 熔点noun | róng diǎn | melting point |
| 熔断机制noun | róng duàn jī zhì | (finance) trading curb |
| 熔化点 | róng huà diǎn | melting point |
| 熔断丝 | róng duàn sī | fuse wire |
| 熔断verb | róng duàn | (of fuse wire) to melt |
| 大熔炉 | dà róng lú | lit. large smelting furnace |
| 助熔剂 | zhù róng jì | flux |
| 熔岩流 | róng yán liú | lava flow |
| 玄武质熔岩 | xuán wǔ zhì róng yán | basalt |
熔 appears in 24 compound words: 79 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 21 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 熔 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
消防员迅速赶到，扑灭了熊熊大熔。
xiāo fáng yuán xùn sù gǎn dào , pū miè le xióng xióng dà róng .
Firefighters arrived quickly and put out the raging fire.
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