銅 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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tóng

copper

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound.

Components

釒 Meaning component

jīn

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

同 Sound component

tóng, tòng

together

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

铜 (銅)

tóng

copper, brass, bronze cuprum; copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hóngtóng]; CL:塊|块[kuài]

Most common words with 銅

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	铜	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])

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[l]ˤoŋ	duwng	tóng	bronze, copper

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	14
Simplified	铜
Unicode	U+9285
Shuowen	“銅，赤金也。从金，同聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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