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董

dǒng

to direct, to supervise; surname

🔤 Pictophonetic: 艹 (plant) provides meaning, 重 provides pronunciation
HSK 6 12 strokes Common (16%)
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艹
cǎo
grass, weed, plant, herb
重
zhòng
heavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
⿱艹重 i

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Component Tree i

cǎo
艹
grass, weed, plant, herb
📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 艸; grass sprouting
3 strokes
zhòng
重
heavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
💡 Ideographic: A burden carried for a thousand 千 miles 里
9 strokes HSK 3

Words Using 董 (16)

gǔdǒng
古董 ↗
HSK 6
curio / antique
dǒngshìzhǎng
董事长 ↗
HSK 6
chairman of the board / chairman
dǒngshì
董事 ↗
board member
Dǒng
董 ↗
surname Dong
dǒng
董 ↗
to supervise / to direct / director
bùzhīDīngDǒng
不知丁董 ↗
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
DǒngFèng
董奉 ↗
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
Gǔdǒngtān
古董滩 ↗
Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass [[陽關|阳关<Yángguān>]], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries
dǒngshìhuì
董事会 ↗
board of directors
DǒngZhòngshū
董仲舒 ↗
Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the established system of values of former Han dynasty
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