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同志 tóngzhì

同志 tóngzhì Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 4 English Translations of the word 同志 tóngzhì .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tóngzhì | tong2 zhi4
English translation
comrade
homosexual (slang)
CL:
>[gè]

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Traditional form

同志 tóngzhì

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Come for Peace. Stay for Wisdom.

Etymology of 同志 tóngzhì

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tóng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a bucket or tube, now written as tǒng . kǒu (mouth) indicates that the character is only "mouthed", i.e. only used for its phonetic value.

Positional decomposition

凡口

Number of Strokes

6
zhì

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. xīn represents the meaning and Shì represents the sound. In simplified Chinese zhì is also used to mean "sign; record", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character zhì .

Positional decomposition

士心

Number of Strokes

7

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同志 tóngzhì Decomposition

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同志 tóngzhì Compounds

See all 43 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 同志 tóngzhì in their composition.

  • tóng
    • dòng
    • xìn
    • xìng
      • xìng
    • xìn
    • tǒng , tóng , tóng , tóng , dòng , dòng , dòng , dòng , , dòng , dòng , tóng , cuàn , tōng , tóng , tóng , tóng , , , , , , , , , , , , , tóng , ,
  • zhì
    • zhì , zhì , zhì , , , ,
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