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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

HSK 7-9
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.
HSK 7-9
宋代把边地小的行政区称为峒。
Sòngdài bǎ biāndì 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