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wǎng wǎng

Written wǎng wǎng, said wáng wǎng — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.

HSK 3 · word 1973 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

他开会往往会迟到。

tā kāi huì wǎng wǎng huì chí dào

He tends to be late for meetings.

Characters in 往往

to go towards, doubled. Reduplication makes an adverb of tendency — as things tend to go, hence often.

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