冢 (zhǒng): mound, burial mound, senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
冢 (zhǒng) is a Chinese character meaning “mound.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 冖 (semantic) and 豖 (phonetic). It ranks #4547 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 冢 shroud. Its radical form 冖 (cover) appears in many related characters such as 写 (xiě, to write), 农 (nóng, (bound form) agriculture), 冠 (guàn, to be first).
Definitions
- mound
- burial mound
- senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万人冢noun | wàn rén zhǒng | mass grave |
| 大冢 | dà zhǒng | Ōtsuka (Japanese surname) |
| 冢中枯骨phrase | zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ | dried bones in burial mound (idiom) |
| 义冢noun | yì zhǒng | potter's field |
| 衣冠冢noun | yī guān zhǒng | cenotaph |
| 丛冢noun | cóng zhǒng | mass grave |
冢 appears in 6 compound words: 17 as the first character, 83 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
林诗栋/黄友政加冕男双冠军，他们在决赛中以4:2战胜日本组合张本智和/筱冢大登。
lín shī dòng huáng yǒu zhèng jiā miǎn nán shuāng guàn jūn , tā men zài jué sài zhōng yǐ 4 : 2 zhàn shèng rì běn zǔ hé zhāng běn zhì hé 筱 zhǒng dà dēng .
Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng were crowned men's doubles champions after defeating the Japanese pair of Tomokazu Harimoto and Daito Shinozuka 4–2 in the final.
中国组合黄友政/林诗栋以大比分4:2击败东道主组合张本智和/筱冢大登，收获男双金牌。
zhōng guó zǔ hé huáng yǒu zhèng lín shī dòng yǐ dà bǐ fēn 4 : 2 jī bài dōng dào zhǔ zǔ hé zhāng běn zhì hé 筱 zhǒng dà dēng , shōu huò nán shuāng jīn pái .
The Chinese pair Huang Youzheng and Lin Shidong defeated the host nation’s pair, Tomokazu Harimoto and Daito Shinozuka, by a score of 4–2 to claim the men’s doubles gold medal.
金冠冢出土的新罗金冠。
jīn guàn zhǒng chū tǔ de xīn luó jīn guàn .
A Silla gold crown unearthed from the Golden Crown Tomb.
陕西省考古研究院 供图 陵园正中心中轴线位置，矗立覆斗形封土主冢。
shǎn xī shěng kǎo gǔ yán jiū yuàn gōng tú líng yuán zhèng zhōng xīn zhōng zhóu xiàn wèi zhì , chù lì fù dǒu xíng fēng tǔ zhǔ zhǒng .
Photo courtesy of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. At the very center of the mausoleum complex, along the central axis, stands the main tomb, a pyramid-shaped mound.
Character Family
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