董

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to supervise; to direct; director

12 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,515 U+8463

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

艹 (semantic, “plant”) + 重 (phonetic, zhòng)

components: 艹重

director · Heisig RSH #2657

flower + 重 heavy

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 重

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 重 (zhòng) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
重 sound component	zhòng	heavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
踵	zhǒng	heel; to follow; to visit, to call on
锺	zhōng	cup, glass, goblet; surname

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不知丁董	bù zhī Dīng Dǒng	forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom); unheeding the lessons of the past
董事会	dǒng shì huì	board of directors
董事长	dǒng shì zhǎng	chairman of the board of directors
老古董	lǎo gǔ dǒng	antique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey
联席董事	lián xí dǒng shì	associate director
董建华	Dǒng Jiàn huá	Tung Chee-hwa (1937-), Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician, chief executive 1997-2005
董必武	Dǒng Bì wǔ	Dong Biwu (1886-1975), one of the founders of the Chinese communist party
董事	dǒng shì	board member
古董	gǔ dǒng	curio; antique
骨董	gǔ dǒng	variant of 古董[gu3 dong3]
董鸡	dǒng jī	(bird species of China) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
董座	dǒng zuò	(Tw) chairman (of a board of directors)
董阳孜	Dǒng Yáng zī	Grace Tong (Tong Yangtze) (1942-), Taiwanese calligrapher
古董滩	Gǔ dǒng tān	Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關\|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named af…
董奉	Dǒng Fèng	Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting th…
董仲舒	Dǒng Zhòng shū	Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the es…
董卓	Dǒng Zhuó	Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager …