同

tóng

like

same; similar; together; alike; with

all/common (凡) + mouth (口) = same, together

Imagine many mouths (口) joined together under one shared enclosure (凡), all speaking in unison — that shared voice is sameness. When voices align, people are together and alike.

凡+口→同
凡CommonSemantic
口MouthSemantic

我和你同岁,都是今年二十岁。

wǒ hé nǐ tóng suì, dōu shì jīn nián èr shí suì。

You and I are the same age, both twenty years old this year.

这两件衣服的颜色不同,一件深一件浅。

zhè liǎng jiàn yīfu de yánsè bù tóng, yī jiàn shēn yī jiàn qiǎn。

The colors of these two pieces of clothing are not the same — one is dark and one is light.

Words with 同

同音

tóng yīn

(music) unison

等同

děng tóng

to equate

同德

tóng dé

Tongde county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

同流合污

tóng liú hé wū

to wallow in the mire with sb (idiom); to follow the bad example of others

同业公会

tóng yè gōng huì

trade association

风雨同舟

fēng yǔ tóng zhōu

lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom); fig. to stick together in hard times

谭嗣同

tán sì tóng

Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

同屋

tóng wū

roommate

相同

xiāng tóng

identical

异口同声

yì kǒu tóng shēng

different mouths, same voice

同化

tóng huà

assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)

同等

tóng děng

equal to

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