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HSK
3

to swim

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

yong3 yǒng

Meaning


Primary

to swim

Alternatives

swim, swims, swam, swimming

Mnemonic


[y-] Yoshi is in the [3] basement of the [-ong] temple where he finds a pipe sticking out of the rock floor. He 丶 drops a green spotted egg on it and it bursts open, 氵 spraying 水 water everywhere and flooding the template basement. Yoshi 泳 swims around the flooded basement along with the floating relics. He didn't even know he could 泳 swim.

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