Chinese symbol for “barrel”
大桶
dà tǒng
barrel; vat
The closest CC-CEDICT match for barrel is 大桶 (dà tǒng), defined as: barrel; vat.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “barrel”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 桶 | tǒng | bucket; (trash) can |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大桶.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 马桶 (馬桶) | mǎ tǒng | chamber pot; wooden pan used as toilet |
| 垃圾桶 | lā jī tǒng | trash can; garbage can; Taiwan pr. [le4se4tong3] |
See also: Japanese symbol for “barrel”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.