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胨

dòng

Character Traditional 腖

What 胨 means

1. see {蛋白胨|dàn bái dòng}

Words containing 胨

• 蛋白胨dàn bái dòngpeptone (biochemistry)

Characters built on 月

These share the phonetic component 月 (yuè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 脓nóngpus
• 胴dònglarge intestine; torso
• 臃yōngused in 臃肿
• 肱gōngupper arm; arm
• 肜Róngsurname Rong

Sounds the same

Read dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 动(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 洞cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
• 冻to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
• 栋classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
• 峒cave; cavern
• 恫frighten
• 胴large intestine; torso
• 丼(Taiwan) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
• 垌field; farm; used in place names
• 湩milk; sound of a drum
• 侗Dong ethnic group
• 硐variant of 洞; cave; pit