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洞

dòng

cave

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

同 sound component

同  Sound component

tóng, tòng

  

together

Evolution

洞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
洞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
洞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
洞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

洞  

dòng

cave, grotto; ravine; hole; cave; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 洞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

洞

cave

漏洞

leak

洞穴

cave

黑洞

(astronomy) black hole

山洞

cavern

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 24.1711% of movies

1264th most common character in movies

1015th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D1E

Shuowen

“洞，疾流也。从水，同聲。”


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