tóng

copper

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
钅 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

同 sound component

  Sound component

tóngtòng

  

together

Evolution

铜 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
铜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
铜 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
铜 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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tóng

copper, brass, bronze cuprum; copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hóng​tóng]; CL:|[kuài]

Most common words with 铜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

copper (chemistry)

青铜

bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡[xī])

铜板

copper coin

铜牌

bronze medal

黄铜

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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