Chinese

懂

dǒng
to understand; to comprehend
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 2
  • radical 心
  • 16 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *toːŋʔ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 董 (OC *toːŋʔ).

Perhaps cognate with 黨 (OC *taːŋʔ, “to know”), an ancient Chu dialect word (Schuessler, 2007).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese心 “heart (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 個／个 c; 粒 mn)”
  • soundChinese董 “to supervise, inspect”
    • meaningChinese艸 “grass”
    • soundChinese重 “heavy”
      • meaningChinese人 “man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)”
      • soundChinese東 “east”

Words built on it: 懂得

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