Chinese Character Wiki

筒

tǒng

thick piece of bamboo

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound. Originally written as 同.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

同 sound component

同  Sound component

tóng, tòng

  

together

Evolution

筒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

筒  

tǒng

thick piece of bamboo; pipe; tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)

筒 (筩) 

tǒng

variant of 筒[tǒng]

Most common words with 筒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

筒

tube

话筒

microphone

手电筒

flashlight

电筒

flashlight

火箭筒

bazooka

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤoŋ

duwng

tǒng

tube


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.4254% of movies

2095th most common character in movies

2088th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B52

Shuowen

“筒，通簫也。从竹，同聲。”


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