董 (dǒng): director
董 (dǒng) is a Chinese character meaning “director.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 艹 (semantic) and 重 (phonetic). It ranks #1618 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 董 plant. Its radical form 艹 (grass) appears in many related characters such as 花 (huā, flower), 茶 (chá, tea), 菜 (cài, vegetable, dish).
Definitions
- director
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 董事会noun | dǒng shì huì | board of directors |
| 古董noun | gǔ dǒng | curio |
| 董事noun | dǒng shì | board member |
| 老古董 | lǎo gǔ dǒng | antique |
| 董事长noun | dǒng shì zhǎng | chairman of the board of directors |
| 骨董 | gǔ dǒng | variant of 古董 |
| 不知丁董 | bù zhī dīng dǒng | forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) |
| 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 |
| 董座 | dǒng zuò | (Tw) chairman (of a board of directors) |
| 古董滩 | gǔ dǒng tān | Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关, named after many Han dynasty archae... |
| 董鸡noun | dǒng jī | (bird species of China) watercock (Gallicrex cinerea) |
| 董奉 | dǒng fèng | Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apric... |
| 董阳孜 | dǒng yáng zī | Grace Tong (Tong Yangtze) (1942-), Taiwanese calligrapher |
董 appears in 17 compound words: 65 as the first character, 24 as the last, and 12 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 董 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
董事长是公司的最高领导人。
Dǒngshìzhǎng shì gōngsī de zuìgāo lǐngdǎo rén.
The chairman is the highest leader of the company.
MKS Inc董事Cannone出售32.2萬美元股票
dǒng shì chū shòu . 萬 měi yuán gǔ piào
MKS Inc. Director Cannone Sells $322,000 Worth of Stock
...stries任命Paul Maass加入董事會
. . . rèn mìng jiā rù dǒng shì 會
Stries appoints Paul Maass to its board of directors
Kirby Corp董事Davis Barry E出售價值10...
dǒng shì chū shòu 價 zhí . . .
Davis Barry E, director of Kirby Corp, sold shares worth $10 million...
Ceribell(CBLL)董事Parvizi出售33.879萬美元股...
dǒng shì chū shòu . 萬 měi yuán gǔ . . .
Ceribell (CBLL) Director Parvizi sold shares worth $338,790...
聯發科董座蔡明介:今年 AI 還是很熱 機會很多...
聯 發 kē dǒng zuò 蔡 míng jiè jīn nián 還 shì hěn 熱 機 會 hěn duō . . .
MediaTek Chairman Tsai Ming-kai: AI remains hot this year with plenty of opportunities...
北市大安區醫美董座開工中彈 槍手變裝+交替換車製造斷點逃...
běi shì dà ān 區 醫 měi dǒng zuò 開 gōng zhōng 彈 槍 shǒu 變 裝 jiāo tì 換 車 製 zào 斷 點 táo . . .
Chairman of Medical Aesthetics Firm Shot During Work in Taipei's Daan District Gunman Disguised, Used Alternating Vehicles to Create Disruptions During Escape...
...800万换取贷款申请 反贪会捕前电讯公司董事
. . . wàn huàn qǔ dài kuǎn shēn qǐng fǎn tān huì bǔ qián diàn xùn gōng sī dǒng shì
... ...8 million in exchange for loan applications Anti-Corruption Commission arrests ex-Telecom director
傾銷爭議 天聲董事長張水圳曾硬槓美政府
傾 銷 爭 議 tiān 聲 dǒng shì 長 張 shuǐ 圳 céng yìng 槓 měi zhèng fǔ
Disputes over dumping Tian Sheng's chairman Zhang Shui-shen once leveraged the U.S. government.
他偶然在古董店里发现了这个旧硬币。
Tā ǒurán zài gǔdǒng diàn lǐ fāxiàn le zhège jiù yìngbì.
He came across this old coin in an antique shop.
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