涌入
yǒngrù · HSK 7
Influence
🌊 涌入 = 涌 surge/gush + 入 enter: water surging in
涌 carries the water radical 氵plus 甬 (a path), giving the sense of gushing; 入 means to enter. Together: a crowd or flood pouring in. The yǒng start sounds like the English yawn of an opening floodgate.
涌 — water radical 氵 + 甬 (yǒng, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning, while 甬 supplies the sound. It originally described water gushing or welling up from a spring, and by extension came to mean any surging or swelling motion, as in waves or crowds.
入 — single pictograph, two slanting strokes
入 is a pictograph showing an arrowhead or pointed entrance, with two strokes converging downward to suggest something going inward. The original sense was 'to enter,' and it still carries that meaning today. It contrasts visually with 人 (person), where the strokes cross differently at the top.