依然 yīrán▶ ยังคง

Stroke order

依然 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 依 — 8 strokes
• 然 — 12 strokes

Related words

• 不然มิฉะนั้น
• 偶然โดยบังเอิญ
• 居然จริงๆ แล้ว
• 必然หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้
• 忽然ทันใดนั้น
• 显然อย่างเห็นได้ชัด

依然 is pronounced yīrán and means “ยังคง”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 依然 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.