桐 — Chinese character
桐
tóng
Chinese wood-oil tree, Vernicia fordii
- Pinyin
- tóng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 木 同
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 同
- Japanese
- 桐 as a kanji
Common words with 桐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 梧桐 | wú tóng | wutong (Firmiana platanifolia); Chinese parasol tree |
| 桐油 | tóng yóu | tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer |
| 油桐 | yóu tóng | Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) |
| 泡桐 | pāo tóng | Paulownia (genus) |
| 桐人 | tóng rén | puppet burial object; wooden effigy buried to put a curse on sb |
| 刺桐 | cì tóng | Indian coral tree; sunshine tree |
| 珙桐 | gǒng tóng | dove tree (Davidia involucrata) |
| 法国梧桐 (法國梧桐) | fǎ guó wú tóng | plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia) |
| 桐木偶 | tóng mù ǒu | puppet burial object; wooden effigy buried to put a curse on sb |
| 梧桐科 | wú tóng kē | Sterculiaceae, family of Malvale trees incl. Cacao, Cola and Firmiana |
| 良桐 | liáng tóng | good Chinese wood-oil tree (Aleurites cordata) |
桐 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 2
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.