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胡同 hútòng

胡同 hútòng Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 5 English Translations of the word 胡同 hútòng .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
hútòng | hu2 tong4
English translation
lane
alley
CL:條 tiáo
>条 tiáo [tiáo]
variant of 胡同 hútòng [hú tòng]

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HSK level

5

Traditional form

胡同 hútòng

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng
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Etymology of 胡同 hútòng

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胡 Hú

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 古 Gǔ represents the sound. Simplified form of 鬍 hú .

Phonetic compound

古 Gǔ

Semantic compound

⺼

Positional decomposition

⿰古⺼

Number of Strokes

9
同 tóng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a bucket or tube, now written as 筒 tǒng . 口 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

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Example sentences using 胡同 hútòng

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临街 lín jiē 的 de 东 Dōng 胡同 hútòng 是 shì 杜 Dù 家 jiā 有名 yǒumíng 的 de “ 义 yì 和 hé 大院 dà yuàn ”.

Hutong street East are Dujiatai famous " justice and the compound. "

不 bù 管 guǎn 发生 fāshēng 啥 shá 我 wǒ 决不 jué bù 离开 líkāi 死胡同 sǐ hú tòng 半 bàn 步 Bù .

I don't leave the cul - de - sac for anything.

我们 wǒmen 把 bǎ 车子 chē zi 开进了 le 一 yī 条 tiáo 死胡同 sǐ hú tòng ,只得 zhǐ dé 退 tuì 出 chū 来 lái .

We drove into a dead end and had to back out.

我们 wǒmen 想 xiǎng 走 zǒu 的 de 头 tóu 一 yī 条 tiáo 路 Lù 结果 jiēguǒ 是 shì 条 tiáo 死胡同 sǐ hú tòng 。

The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.

夜幕 yè mù 渐渐 jiàn jiàn 降临 jiànglín ，我们 wǒmen 驱车在 zài 狭窄 xiázhǎi 的 de 胡同 hútòng 里 lǐ 缓慢 huǎn màn 前行 qián xíng 。

As the dusk shaded into night, we drove slowly through narrow alleys.

胡同 hútòng Decomposition

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胡同 hútòng Compounds

See all 54 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 胡同 hútòng in their composition.

  • 胡 Hú
  • 同 tóng
    • 洞 dòng
      • 霘
    • 舋 xìn
    • 興 xìng
      • 嬹 xìng
    • 釁 xìn
      • 虋
    • 筒 tǒng , 铜 tóng , 酮 tóng , 桐 tóng , 胴 dòng , 恫 dòng , 硐 dòng , 峒 dòng , 姛, 侗 dòng , 垌 dòng , 烔 tóng , 爨 cuàn , 痌 tōng , 茼 tóng , 餇 tóng , 鲖 tóng , 哃, 峝, 戙, 挏, 晍, 狪, 眮, 秱, 粡, 絧, 詷, 迵, 銅 tóng , 駧, 鮦
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