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董
Dǒng
1. surname Dong
Common • Top 18% ✏️ 13 strokes Noun

Character Breakdown (Single character)

董
dǒng
to direct, to supervise; surname
HSK 6 12 丶

Compound Words (15)

董鸡
dǒngjī
(Chinese bird species) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
董卓
DǒngZhuó
Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu [[呂布|吕布]]
董奉
DǒngFèng
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
董事
dǒngshì
board member
古董
gǔdǒng
curio
HSK 6
骨董
gǔdǒng
variant of [[古董<gǔdǒng>]]
董阳孜
DǒngYángzī
Grace Tong (Tong Yangtze) (1942-), Taiwanese calligrapher
董仲舒
DǒngZhòngshū
Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the established system of values of former Han dynasty
古董滩
Gǔdǒngtān
Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass [[陽關|阳关<Yángguān>]], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries
董事会
dǒngshìhuì
board of directors
董事长
dǒngshìzhǎng
chairman of the board
HSK 6
董建华
DǒngJiànhuá
Tung Chee-hwa (1937-), Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician, chief executive 1997-2005
董必武
DǒngBìwǔ
Dong Biwu (1886-1975), one of the founders of the Chinese communist party
不知丁董
bùzhīDīngDǒng
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
联席董事
liánxídǒngshì
associate director

Alternate Entries

董
dǒng
to supervise / to direct / director

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
1,628
Word Frequency Rank
15,047 of 84,292