cōng / chuāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 烟囱) chimney

Examples

Gōngchǎng de yāncōng mào zhe gǔngǔn hēiyān.
Thick black smoke poured from the factory chimney.
Jùshuō Shèngdàn Lǎorén huì cóng yāncōng pá xiàlái.
Santa Claus is said to come down the chimney.

Tips

usage
In this reading is bound to 烟囱 (烟囱, 'chimney'), the everyday word for a smoke flue or factory stack.

Components

ideograph
cōng
chimney; smoke vent
is a single self-contained graph: an outer frame with a crossing inner mark, picturing a vent or flue with smoke escaping through it. The pieces do not function as independent components, so it is treated as one unit.

Filed under radical (wéi, #31) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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