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峒

dòng / tóng
noun #92,539

Meanings

  1. 1 a mountain cave (often in place names)
  2. 2 an old administrative unit; a settlement of southern ethnic groups

Examples

西南许多村寨的地名里都有峒字。
Xīnán xǔduō cūnzhài de dìmíng lǐ dōu yǒu dòng zì.
Many southwestern village names contain the character dong.
宋代把边地小的行政区称为峒。
Sòngdài bǎ biān dì xiǎo de xíngzhèngqū chēngwéi dòng.
Under the Song, a small frontier district was called a dong.

Tips

history
Read 峒 for the 'cave' sense and for the historical settlement unit of the Miao, Dong and Zhuang peoples (the ethnonym 侗族 is linked to it). A separate reading 峒 appears in the mountain name 崆峒.

Components

radical
山 shān
mountain
Left side is the mountain radical 山, fitting both a hill cave and the hill-country settlements the word once named.
phonetic
同 tóng
same; sound element
Right side 同 is the sound element; it gives 峒 directly in one reading and 峒 after drift in this one.

Stroke Order

峒 dòng