tóngtòng

lane

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
行 meaning component

  Meaning component

xíngháng

  

walk

同 sound component

  Sound component

tóngtòng

  

together

Evolution

衕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tòng

alley, lane; see 衚衕|胡同[hú​tòng]

Most common words with 衕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

同时

at the same time

like

不同

different

同意

to agree

同样

same

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 96.5722% of movies

189th most common character in movies

69th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8855

Shuowen

“衕,通街也。从行,同聲。”


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