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董

dǒng

HSK 6 Character

What 董 means

1. to supervise
2. to direct
3. director

Other readings

董 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Dǒngsurname Dong

Example sentences

• 好啦，老古董。
  OK, boomer.
• 她对古董很感兴趣。
  Tā duì gǔdǒng hěn gǎnxìngqù.
  She has a great love for antique goods.
• 她看古董的眼光很好。
  Tā kàn gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng hěn hǎo.
  She has an eye for antiques.
• 他对古董很有鉴赏力。
  He has an eye for antiques.
• 他很有鉴赏古董的眼光。
  Tā hěn yǒu jiànshǎng gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng.
  He has an eye for antiques.
• 昨天的董事会会议非常成功。
  Zuótiān de dǒngshìhuì huìyì fēicháng chénggōng.
  Yesterday's board meeting was a big success.

Words starting with 董

• 董事长dǒng shì zhǎngchairman of the board of directors
• 董事dǒng shìboard member
• 董事会dǒng shì huìboard of directors
• 董建华Dǒng Jiàn huáTung Chee-hwa (1937-), Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician, chief executive 1997-2005
• 董卓Dǒng ZhuóDong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager…
• 董必武Dǒng Bì wǔDong Biwu (1886-1975), one of the founders of the Chinese communist party
• 董座dǒng zuò(Taiwan) chairman (of a board of directors)
• 董仲舒Dǒng Zhòng shūDong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the…
• 董鸡dǒng jī(bird species of China) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
• 董奉Dǒng FèngDong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting…
• 董阳孜Dǒng Yáng zīGrace Tong (Tong Yangtze) (1942-), Taiwanese calligrapher

Words containing 董

• 古董gǔ dǒngcurio; antique
• 古董滩Gǔ dǒng tānGudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 阳关
• 老古董lǎo gǔ dǒngantique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey
• 不知丁董bù zhī Dīng Dǒngforgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom); unheeding the lessons of the past
• 联席董事lián xí dǒng shìassociate director
• 骨董gǔ dǒngvariant of 古董

Characters built on 重

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

• 踵zhǒngto arrive; to follow; heel
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Characters that look like 董

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 量liàngcapacity; quantity; amount
• 童tóngchild
• 蛋dànegg; oval-shaped thing
• 竟jìngunexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 萱xuānorange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)

Sounds the same

Read dǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 懂to understand; to comprehend