tóng / dòng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 ignorant
  2. 2 naive; childishly inexperienced

Examples

Gǔjí zhōng yòng " kōngtóng " xíngróng shàonián wúzhī.
The classics describe a young person as naive and untutored.

Tips

usage
The tóng reading ('ignorant, naive') is archaic and only appears in classical compounds such as 倥侗 (倥侗, 'ignorant'). In modern Chinese this character is almost always read dòng for the Dong ethnic group.

Components

radical
rén
person
is the side form of (person), the standard radical for words naming peoples and human types — here a named ethnic group.
phonetic
tóng
same; phonetic
supplies the sound (read tóng on its own; the ethnic-name reading shifted to dòng). It carries no meaning here.

Stroke Order

tóng