铜 (tóng): meaning and stroke order
铜 (tóng) means copper (chemistry), see also 红铜, 块.
铜
- Simplified
- 铜
- Traditional
- 銅
- Pinyin
- tóng
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Stroke order of 铜
铜
- tóng copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]
- 11 strokes
- Traditional form: 銅
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Meaning of 铜
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tóng
Traditional 銅
- copper (chemistry)
- see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]
- CL:塊|块[kuai4]
Radical and structure
- 铜
- Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 11 strokes · 钅 on the left, 同 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.
铜 in our stories
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他打开挂钟后面的小门，一把铜钥匙果然挂在里面。
tā dǎkāi guàzhōng hòumiàn de xiǎomén yì bǎ tóng yàoshi guǒrán guà zài lǐmiàn
He opened the little door at the back of the clock, and sure enough, a brass key was hanging inside.
From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
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庞师傅却摇了摇头，从柜子最里面拿出一只旧碗，碗上歪歪扭扭地排着十几颗铜钉。
Páng shīfu què yáo le yáotóu cóng guìzi zuì lǐmiàn ná chū yì zhī jiù wǎn wǎn shàng wāiwāi-niǔniǔ de pái zhe shíjǐ kē tóng dīng
But Master Pang shook his head and took an old bowl from the back of a cupboard; a dozen copper rivets ran crookedly across it.
From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 铜
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).