董 (dǒng) — to oversee, direct; a common surname

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字

董 character · TOCFL C1 (est.)

董＝艹＋重

ㄉㄨㄥˇ · dǒng

verb — to oversee, direct; a common surname

字源 FORM — what the parts do

艹義grass — the plant radical

重聲zhòng — gives the sounda person bent under a bundle

Tzhòng → dǒng — the donor's old reading, tone tipped

Grass (艹) over 重 zhòng, which lends the sound, the tone tipping to dǒng. The plant sense faded; what stayed is to oversee, to keep in order — 董理、董事 — and the surname Dong: 董卓、董事長.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一個人（重）把一園的草（艹）一畦畦看管整齊——董。

One keeper (重) holding a whole plot of grass (艹) in tidy rows — to oversee.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)董理— to oversee, keep in order

→董事— a director — one who oversees常用

→姓董— the surname Dong常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension