仝

tóng
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 7-9
Táng dài shīrén Lú Tóng hàochēng Chá Xiān.
The Tang poet Lu Tong was nicknamed 'the Tea Sage'.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

仝 tóng