筒
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tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 竹 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 筒
- Common rank
- #1,557
- Unicode
- U+7B52
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
tube · Heisig RSH #2050
竹 bamboo + monks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 筒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 手电筒 | flashlight; electric hand torch | |
| 出气筒 | (metaphorical) punching bag; undeserving target of sb's wrath | |
| 打气筒 | bicycle pump | |
| 竹筒倒豆子 | like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once) | |
| 万花筒 | kaleidoscope | |
| 传声筒 | loudhailer; megaphone; one who parrots sb; mouthpiece | |
| 双筒望远镜 | binoculars | |
| 卷发筒 | hair roller | |
| 筒子 | tube-shaped object; tube; bobbin; (Internet slang) homonym for 同志[tong2 zhi4] | |
| 气筒 | inflator; bicycle pump | |
| 电筒 | flashlight | |
| 量筒 | graduated measuring cylinder; volumetric cylinder | |
| 筒子米糕 | rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnish… | |
| 信筒 | mailbox; postbox | |
| 号筒 | bugle | |
| 话筒 | microphone; (telephone) receiver; handset; megaphone; (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson | |
| 火箭筒 | bazooka; rocket launcher | |
| 烟筒 | chimney; stovepipe; smokestack | |
| 笔筒 | pen container; brush pot | |
| 筒灯 | fluorescent tube or light |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 同 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 同 sound part | same, similar; together with, alike | |
| 洞 | cave, grotto, hole, ravine | |
| 铜 | copper, bronze | |
| 酮 | ketone | |
| 桐 | Chinese wood-oil tree, Vernicia fordii | |
| 侗 | big; ignorant, rude, rustic | |
| 峒 | a mountain in Gansu province | |
| 硐 | cave; chamber; pit | |
| 恫 | fearful, pained, sorrowful | |
| 胴 | the large intestine; the body | |
| 茼 | chrysanthemum; Glebionis coronarium | |
| 垌 | farm, field; used in place names |