棕 (zōng): palm
棕 (zōng) is a Chinese character meaning “palm.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (semantic) and 宗 (phonetic). It ranks #3056 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 棕 tree. Its radical form 木 (tree) appears in many related characters such as 木 (mù, wood/tree), 林 (lín, forest, woods), 森 (sēn, forest (dense)).
Definitions
- palm
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 棕
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棕榈noun | zōng lǘ | palm tree |
| 棕熊noun | zōng xióng | brown bear |
| 深棕色 | shēn zōng sè | dark brown |
| 棕红 | zōng hóng | reddish brown |
| 棕毛noun | zōng máo | palm fiber |
| 棕树noun | zōng shù | palm tree |
| 棕榈油noun | zōng lǘ yóu | palm oil |
| 棕黄 | zōng huáng | light brown |
| 棕枝主日noun | zōng zhī zhǔ rì | Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter) |
| 棕枝全日 | zōng zhī quán rì | Palm Sunday (Christian Festival one week before Easter) |
| 棕背黑头鸫 | zōng bèi hēi tóu dōng | (bird species of China) white-backed thrush |
| 西棕胸佛法僧 | xī zōng xiōng fó fǎ sēng | (bird species) Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis) |
| 棕背伯劳 | zōng bèi bó láo | (bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach) |
| 棕额长尾山雀 | zōng é cháng wěi shān què | (bird species of China) rufous-fronted bushtit (Aegithalos iouschistos) |
| 棕尾伯劳 | zōng wěi bó láo | (bird species of China) red-tailed shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides) |
棕 appears in 87 compound words: 90 as the first character, 3 as the last, and 7 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 棕 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
爷爷在门前种了一棵棕苗，现在已经长得很高了。
yé yé zài mén qián zhǒng le yī kē zōng miáo , xiàn zài yǐ jīng cháng dé hěn gāo le .
Grandpa planted a palm sapling in front of the house, and now it has grown quite tall.
这辆车最初来自美国加州棕榈泉地区，而当地夏季白天气温经常超过 37 摄氏度。
zhè liàng chē zuì chū lái zì měi guó jiā zhōu zōng 榈 quán dì qū , ér dāng dì xià jì bái tiān qì wēn jīng cháng chāo guò 3 7 shè shì dù .
This car originally came from the Palm Springs area in California, where daytime temperatures in the summer often exceed 37 degrees Celsius.
库蚊又称“家蚊”，体色棕黄，多在夜间活动，是流行性乙型脑炎的传播媒介。
kù wén yòu chèn jiā wén , tǐ sè zōng huáng , duō zài yè jiān huó dòng , shì liú háng xìng yǐ xíng nǎo yán de chuán bō méi jiè .
The Culex mosquito, also known as the “house mosquito,” is brownish-yellow in color and is primarily active at night; it is a vector for epidemic Japanese encephalitis.
云冰油棕园火灾持续一周 逾240公顷土地面积仍在...
yún bīng yóu zōng yuán huǒ zāi chí xù yī zhōu yú 2 4 0 gōng qǐng tǔ dì miàn jī réng zài . . .
Fire at Yunbing Oil Palm Plantation Has Been Burning for a Week; Over 240 Hectares of Land Are Still...
伊朗局势—杜拜棕榈岛酒店疑被飞弹碎片击中 入口起火冒浓烟...
yī lǎng jú shì — dù bài zōng 榈 dǎo jiǔ diàn yí bèi fēi dàn suì piàn jī zhōng rù kǒu qǐ huǒ mào nóng yān . . .
Situation in Iran - The Palm Dubai Hotel is suspected of being hit by missile fragments, and the entrance is on fire and smoke...
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