Chinese words starting with “zong”
31 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable zong. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 3 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial z · final ong · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 7
- 3rd tone 17
- 4th tone 7
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 总是zǒng shìHSK 3
always
- 总统zǒng tǒngHSK 4
president (of a country)
- 总结zǒng jiéHSK 3
to sum up; to conclude; summary; résumé
All 31 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 总 | zǒng | d,b,v | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 2 | 总之 | zǒng zhī | c | in a word; in short; in brief | |
| 3 | 宗教 | zōng jiào | n | religion | |
| 4 | 总部 | zǒng bù | n | general headquarters | |
| 5 | 宗 | zōng | q,g | school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | |
| 6 | 总裁 | zǒng cái | n | chairman; director-general (of a company etc) | |
| 7 | 综合 | zōng hé | vn,v,a | comprehensive; composite; synthesized; mixed; to sum up; to integrate; to synthesize | |
| 8 | 总算 | zǒng suàn | d,v | at long last; finally; on the whole | |
| 9 | 总理 | zǒng lǐ | n | premier; prime minister | |
| 10 | 总共 | zǒng gòng | d | altogether; in sum; in all; in total | |
| 11 | 总监 | zǒng jiān | n | head; director (of an organizational unit); (police) commissioner; inspector-general; rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration | |
| 12 | 总体 | zǒng tǐ | n | completely; totally; total; entire; overall; population (statistics) | |
| 13 | 总经理 | zǒng jīng lǐ | n | general manager; CEO | |
| 14 | 棕色 | zōng sè | n | brown | |
| 15 | 总数 | zǒng shù | n | total; sum; aggregate | |
| 16 | 总的来说 | zǒng de lái shuō | c,l | generally speaking; to sum up; in summary; in short | |
| 17 | 宗旨 | zōng zhǐ | n | objective; aim; goal | |
| 18 | 总额 | zǒng é | n | total (amount or value) | |
| 19 | 踪迹 | zōng jì | n | tracks; trail; footprint; trace; vestige | |
| 20 | 纵容 | zòng róng | v | to indulge; to connive at | |
| 21 | 总和 | zǒng hé | n | sum | |
| 22 | 纵横 | zòng héng | v | lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal; length and breadth; criss-crossed; able to move unhindered; abbr. for 合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
| 23 | 总计 | zǒng jì | v | (grand) total | |
| 24 | 总而言之 | zǒng ér yán zhī | c | in short; in a word; in brief | |
| 25 | 总量 | zǒng liàng | n | total; overall amount | |
| 26 | 纵观 | zòng guān | v | to survey comprehensively; an overall survey | |
| 27 | 纵然 | zòng rán | c | even if; even though | |
| 28 | 粽子 | zòng zi | n | glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled | |
| 29 | 纵深 | zòng shēn | n | depth (from front to rear); depth (into a territory); span (of time); (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc) | |
| 30 | 综上所述 | zōng shàng suǒ shù | c | to summarize; to sum up | |
| 31 | 纵横交错 | zòng héng jiāo cuò | v | criss-crossed (idiom) |
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