董 — Chinese character
董
dǒng
to direct, to supervise; surname
- Pinyin
- dǒng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 艹 重
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 重
- Japanese
- 董 as a kanji
Common words with 董
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 董事 | dǒng shì | board member |
| 董事会 (董事會) | dǒng shì huì | board of directors |
| 董事长 (董事長) | dǒng shì zhǎng | chairman of the board of directors |
| 古董 | gǔ dǒng | curio; antique |
| 骨董 | gǔ dǒng | variant of 古董 (gǔ dǒng) |
| 老古董 | lǎo gǔ dǒng | antique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey |
| 董座 | dǒng zuò | (Tw) chairman (of a board of directors) |
| 不知丁董 | bù zhī Dīng Dǒng | forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom); unheeding the lessons of the past |
| 联席董事 (聯席董事) | lián xí dǒng shì | associate director |
| 董鸡 (董雞) | dǒng jī | (bird species of China) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea) |
English words written with 董
董 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.