cōng / chuāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 烟囱) chimney

Examples

HSK 3
Jùshuō Shèngdàn Lǎorén huì cóng yāncōng pá xiàlái.
Santa Claus is said to come down the chimney.
HSK 5
Gōngchǎng de yāncōng mào zhe gǔngǔn hēiyān.
Thick black smoke poured from the factory 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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