铜 (銅)
tóng
Pinyin

Definition

铜 (銅)
 - 
tóng
  1. copper (chemistry)
  2. see also 紅銅|红铜[hóng tóng]
  3. CL:塊|块[kuài]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

铜
tóng
  1. 1 copper (chemistry)
  2. 2 see also: 红铜 hóng tóng
  3. 3 classifier: 块 kuài
铜牌
tóng pái
  1. 1 bronze medal
  2. 2 bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc
  3. 3 classifier: 枚 méi
青铜
qīng tóng
  1. 1 bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡[xī])
古铜色
gǔ tóng sè
  1. 1 bronze color
铜仁
Tóng rén
  1. 1 Tongren city and prefecture in Guizhou

Idioms (2)

铜墙铁壁
tóng qiáng tiě bì
  1. 1 copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
铁齿铜牙
tiě chǐ tóng yá
  1. 1 clever and eloquent speaker (idiom)

Sample Sentences

东坡有幕士，尝谓柳永词只合十七八女郎，执红牙板，歌“杨柳岸，晓风残月”：东坡词须关西大汉，铜琵琶，铁绰板，唱“大江东去”。东坡为之“绝倒”。
Dōngpō yǒu mùshì ，cháng wèi Liǔ Yǒng cí zhǐ hé shíqī bā nǚláng ，zhí hóngyábǎn ，gē “yángliǔ àn ，xiǎofēng cányuè ”：Dōngpō cí xū guānxī dàhàn ，tóng pípá ，tiě chuòbǎn ，chàng “dà jiāng dōng qù ”。dōngpō wèi zhī “juédǎo ”。
One day Su Dongpo came upon a officer who was skilled at singing, so he asked, "How do my ci compare with those of Liu Yong?". He replied, "Liu Yong's ci are only suitable for girls of 17 or 18 to sing, holding their ivory clappers and singing 'a river bank covered in willow trees, with the cold breeze before the dawn', the ci of a scholar like yourself requires a great man from West of the Hangu Pass, using a bronze pipa, a pair of iron clappers, singing 'The River Surges Eastward'." Su Dongpo gave a hearty laugh, not knowing how to react.
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再找找。看这个，铜锅。
zài zhǎo zhao 。kàn zhè gè ，tóng guō 。
Let me look again. Look at this one. A copper wok.
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这是一根铜柱。我们知道纣王和妲己发明了炮烙之刑，这根铜柱就是施刑的工具。将铜柱置于炭火之上，令受刑的人在铜柱上行走，受刑之人受不了烫就掉在炭火之中被活活烧死。
zhè shì yī gēn tóngzhù 。wǒmen zhīdào Zhòuwáng hé Dájǐ fāmíng le páoluò zhī xíng ，zhè gēn tóngzhù jiùshì shīxíng de gōngjù 。jiāng tóngzhù zhìyú tànhuǒ zhī shàng ，lìng shòuxíng de rén zài tóngzhù shàng xíngzǒu ，shòuxíng zhī rén shòubuliǎo tàng jiù diào zài tànhuǒ zhīzhōng bèi huó huó shāo sǐ 。
This is a copper beam. We know that King Zhou and Daji invented torture by walking on a heated copper beam. This copper beam was an instrument in torture. The beam was placed upon a bed of hot coals, and someone being tortured would walk on the beam. The person being tortured would be unable to withstand the heat and would fall into the hot coals and burn to death.
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上次的配色方案你不是点头了吗？再说，暗红色的墙面配古铜色的窗帘，不仅气派，而且很现代的。
shàngcì de pèisè fāng\'àn nǐ bùshì diǎntóu le ma ？zài shuō ，àn hóngsè de qiángmiàn pèi gǔtóngsè de chuānglián ，bùjǐn qìpài ，érqiě hěn xiàndài de 。
Didn't you agree to the color scheme last time? Besides, the dark red wall matches the bronze colored curtains. Not only does it have a lot of feeling, it's modern too.
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她们规格可高了。陪葬品有东汉的青铜器，还有波斯和欧洲的珍珠、珊瑚什么的。
tāmen guīgé kě gāo le 。péizàngpǐn yǒu DōngHàn de qīngtóngqì ，hái yǒu Bōsī hé Ōuzhōu de zhēnzhū 、shānhú shénme de 。
Their standards were really high! In the tomb were bronze implements from the Eastern Han era. There were also pearls from Persia and Europe, and coral and whatnot.
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祝贺你，拿到奥运铜牌。
zhùhè nǐ ，nádào Àoyùn tóngpái 。
Congratulations on winning an Olympic bronze medal.
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没错。不过银牌和铜牌比俄罗斯少。
méicuò 。bùguò yínpái hé tóngpái bǐ Éluósī shǎo 。
That’s right. But they got less silver and bronze medals than Russia did.
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