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总共

zǒng gòng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 總共

总共 (zǒng gòng) means "altogether; in total". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 总共 means

1. altogether; in sum; in all; in total

The characters in 总共

• 总zǒng(bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably
• 共gòngcommon; general; to share

Example sentences

• 总共有五十个人。
  Zǒnggòng yǒu wǔshí gèrén.
  There were fifty persons in all.
• 总共是3000日元。
  Zǒnggòng shì 3000 Rìyuán.
  The total comes to 3,000 yen.
• 我今天总共买了十本书。
  Wǒ jīntiān zǒnggòng mǎi le shí běn shū.
  Today, I bought ten books in all.
• 总共造成 6000 万人死亡。
  It left 60 million dead.
• 如果我们在棋盘的第一个格子里放一粒麦子，在第二个格子里放两粒麦子，在第三个格子里放四粒麦子，以此类推，直到最后一个格子，那么总共会有 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 粒麦子，足以堆成喜马拉雅山的 100 倍高。
  If we were to put a grain of wheat on the first box of a chessboard, two grains on the second one, four on the third one and so on, until the last one, there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains, enough to make a mountain 100 times taller than the Himalayas.

Where 总共 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Governance, Laws & Political Order (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zǒng gòng correctly.
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