董
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to supervise; to direct; director
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艸 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 董
- Common rank
- #2,515
- Unicode
- U+8463
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
director · Heisig RSH #2657
flower + 重 heavy
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 董
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不知丁董 | forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom); unheeding the lessons of the past | |
| 董事会 | board of directors | |
| 董事长 | chairman of the board of directors | |
| 老古董 | antique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey | |
| 联席董事 | associate director | |
| 董建华 | Tung Chee-hwa (1937-), Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician, chief executive 1997-2005 | |
| 董必武 | Dong Biwu (1886-1975), one of the founders of the Chinese communist party | |
| 董事 | board member | |
| 古董 | curio; antique | |
| 骨董 | variant of 古董[gu3 dong3] | |
| 董鸡 | (bird species of China) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea) | |
| 董座 | (Tw) chairman (of a board of directors) | |
| 董阳孜 | Grace Tong (Tong Yangtze) (1942-), Taiwanese calligrapher | |
| 古董滩 | Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named af… | |
| 董奉 | Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting th… | |
| 董仲舒 | Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the es… | |
| 董卓 | Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager … |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 重 — compare how they read.