同 tóng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Made of
- 凡 any, every, all 口 mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
同时
tóngshí
at the same time
Characters in this word
时 shí
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我们同时到。 Wǒmen tóngshí dào. We arrive at the same time.
- 他们同时笑。 Tāmen tóngshí xiào. They laugh at the same time.
- 同时开始吧。 Tóngshí kāishǐ ba. Let us start at the same time.