翁
Ancient forms
1 formGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
wēng weng1
- elderly man
- father
- father-in-law
- neck feathers of a bird (old)
- surname Weng
Example sentences
- I'm going to be a millionaire.
- sàiwēngshīmǎ 塞翁失马Every cloud has a silver lining.
HSK words with 翁
More words with 翁
- 老翁 lǎowēng old man
- 负翁 fùwēng debtor (jocular term, homonymous with 富翁 (fù wēng))
- 尊翁 zūnwēng (honorific) your father
- 醉翁 zuìwēng wine-lover
- 翁姑 wēnggū husband's father and mother
- 翁婿 wēngxù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
- 凫翁 fúwēng watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
- 白头翁 báitóuwēng root of Chinese pulsatilla
- 主人翁 zhǔrénwēng master (of the house)
- 信天翁 xìntiānwēng albatross (family Diomedeidae)
- 不倒翁 bùdǎowēng roly-poly toy