cōng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a chimney (classical)
  2. 2 a torch made of hemp stalks (classical)

Examples

Cōng zài gǔwén lǐ shì yāncōng de yìsi.
In old texts the character 'cong' means a chimney.

Tips

history
is not used in modern Chinese. It is an old word for a chimney, and (read ) a torch bundled from hemp stalks. Today the chimney is written 烟囱. The fire radical gives the smoke-and-flame sense; supplies the sound, the older full form of .
register
Archaic and literary. You will meet only in old dictionaries and classical text, never in speech.

Components

radical
huǒ
fire
(fire) is the indexing radical on the left, marking as a thing of smoke and flame, a chimney or a burning torch.
phonetic
cōng
phonetic element
is the older full form behind ; it supplies the sound for and is the same phonetic seen in .

Stroke Order

cōng