桐

tóng
#2,706 most
frequent character
tree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

桐 has 木 tree as its picture part and 同 tóng as the sound part. It first meant the Chinese parasol tree, then came to mean the tung tree.

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Homophones

HSK 5
铜tóng
copper (chemistry)
同tóng
same, similar, alike, like, together
童tóng
child
洞tóng
used in 洪洞[Hong2tong2], a county in Shanxi

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