tóng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (used as a surname) Tong
  2. 2 (archaic) old form of 同: same; together

Examples

Táng dài shīrén Lú Tóng hàochēng Chá xiān.
The Tang poet Lu Tong was nicknamed 'the Tea Sage'.

Tips

history
is an old form of (same) and is not used for that meaning today. It survives almost only as a surname, most famously the Tang tea-poet , and is still used in signatures meaning 'ditto / the above-named'.

Components

ideograph
rén
person; roof-like cover here
The top is written like but acts as a covering lid over the lower part, not as a 'person'. Indexed under Kangxi radical by tradition; the modern shape is an abstract cap, not a recognizable figure.
ideograph
gōng
work; labor
sits underneath the cover. In this old graph the two pieces together stood for 'the same / uniform', the sense later written with ; keeps no separate 'work' meaning here.

Stroke Order

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