yāng = y + ang1
center / end / to beg / to plead
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How to pronounce 央

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= y initial

Y is for Maud Younger.

By Matthias • updated about 2 months ago
+ ang1 final

In front of the anglepod.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

央 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨
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dài = d + ai4
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
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= d + a4
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]
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Characters with 央 as component

old variant of 映[ying4]
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yìng = y + (e)ng4
to reflect (light) / to shine / to project (an image onto a screen etc)
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yāng = y + ang1
shoots / sprouts
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Words with 央

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abbr. for various central banks, notably 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Yin2 hang2] and 中央銀行|中央银行[Zhong1 yang1 Yin2 hang2]
central bank

Sentences with 央

央 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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yāng

center / end / to beg / to plead

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