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Mythic Mandarin

咚 (dōng): meaning and stroke order

咚 (dōng) means (onom.) boom (of a drum), knock (on the door).

咚

Simplified
咚
Traditional
咚 (same form)
Pinyin
dōng

Stroke order of 咚

咚

  • dōng (onom.) boom (of a drum); knock (on the door)
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 咚

  1. dōng
    • (onom.) boom (of a drum)
    • knock (on the door)

Radical and structure

咚
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes · 口 on the left, 冬 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 咚

咚 in our stories

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  • 甄太太住在一栋老楼的二层。她说,十点左右她在浴室洗澡,听到卧室里“咚”的一声。

    Zhēn tàitai zhù zài yí dòng lǎo lóu de èr céng tā shuō shí diǎn zuǒyòu tā zài yùshì xǐzǎo tīngdào wòshì lǐ dōng de yì shēng

    Mrs Zhen lived on the first floor of an old building. She said that around ten, while she was in the bath, she heard a thud in the bedroom.

    From the story The dry floor HSK 6

Stories using 咚

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).