tóng
red
Depicts cinnabar (丹), representing the color red, being the most colorful and vibrant pattern (彡).
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-rˤu[m] (dialect: *-um > *-uŋ) | downg | tóng | red |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4075th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5F64 |
Shuowen | “彤，丹飾也。从丹，从彡。彡其畫也。” |
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