同 tóng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
同期
tóngqī
same period; corresponding period
Characters in this word
期 qī
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 与去年同期相比，本市新能源车销量增长了近三成。 Yǔ qùnián tóngqī xiāngbǐ, běn shì xīn néngyuán chē xiāoliàng zēngzhǎng le jìn sān chéng. Compared with the same period last year, sales of new-energy vehicles in this city increased by nearly thirty percent.
- 今年同期的降雨量比往年多得多。 Jīnnián tóngqī de jiàngyǔliàng bǐ wǎngnián duō de duō. This year the rainfall in the same period is much higher than in past years.
- 与上一季度同期相比，利润略有上升。 Yǔ shàng yí jìdù tóngqī xiāngbǐ, lìrùn lüè yǒu shàngshēng. Compared with the corresponding period of the previous quarter, profits rose slightly.