tóng
copper
Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound. Simplified form of 銅.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 铜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
copper (chemistry) | ||
bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡[xī]) | ||
copper coin | ||
bronze medal | ||
brass (alloy of copper 銅|铜[tóng] and zinc 鋅|锌[xīn]) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.4049% of movies
2477th most common character in movies
1772nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+94DC |
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