Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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同 tóng same
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#160
Chapter-11 HSK-A
6 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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T'ung is composed of 口 k'ou mouth, now its radical, and an obsolete word which formerly played that part. It originally meant to come together; hence, with, same, identical, etc. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
同
仝
tóng
(used in given names)/variant of 同[tong2]
同
tóng
like/same/similar/together/alike/with
同
衕
tòng
see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
Phrases ending with the given character
李lǐ
叔shū
同tóng
Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4] after the Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4] of 1911
死sǐ
胡hú
同tòng
dead end/blind alley
谭譚tán
嗣嗣sì
同同tóng
Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
陈陳chén
希希xī
同同tóng
Chen Xitong (1930-), mayor of Beijing at the time of 4th Jun 1989 Tiananmen incident