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tǒng

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tǒng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tǒng | tong3
English translation
to jab, to poke

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About tǒng

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

tǒng

Contains the radical

shǒu

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

hand

Etymology of tǒng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

扌甬

Semantic compound

shǒu

Phonetic compound

yǒng

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shǒu represents the meaning and yǒng represents the sound.

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Example sentences using tǒng

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qǐng Bié yòng sǎn tǒng .

Please don't thrust at me with that umbrella.

gāi huì shì 有人 yǒu rén zài 背后 bèi hòu tǒng le Dāo ?

A knife in his back as like as not.

应当 yīng dāng 知道 zhīdào gāi yòng sǎn tǒng 动物 dòngwù .

She should know better than to poke the animal with her umbrella.

yòng sǎn tǒng le 男子 nán zǐ xià .

She gave the man a prod with her umbrella.

大汉 dà hàn Dāo jiù 岗哨 gǎng shào tǒng dǎo le .

The bigman stabbed at the guard with a knife.

Words with tǒng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
tǒng to stab tǒng
捅娄子 tǒng lóu zi to make a mess of sth捅婁子
捅马蜂窝 tǒng mǎ fēng wō to poke through a hornets' nest捅馬蜂窩

tǒng Decomposition & Compounds

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