tòng

sadness

Moving and sad also provides the pronunciation

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

动 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

dòng

  

move

Evolution

恸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
恸 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
恸 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
恸 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tòng

sadness, grief; mourn; be moved; grief

Most common words with 恸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

悲恸

mournful

grief

哀恸

to be deeply grieved

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4516th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+6078


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