(tǒng) - to unite; system (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
tǒngTraditional: 统
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Translation
to unite; system (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 糸 (silk) radical points to threads being gathered into one, while 充 (chōng) supplies the sound, giving the senses of to unite and a connected system.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 糸 (silk radical) + 充 (chōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
统
Examples
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The American president is giving a speech.
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This system is very complex.
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The new system is more secure.
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He united everyone's ideas.
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The data needs to be organised uniformly.
统 (tǒng) is a bound morpheme meaning to unite or system, used in 总统 (zǒng tǒng) "president" and 系统 (xì tǒng) "system".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 统.
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