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董dǒngto supervise
艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
重heavy · chóngSound part
艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 重 (chóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with dǒng.
事shìmatter
一one · yī
口mouth · kǒu
彐snout · jì
亅hook · jué
长zhǎngchief
长 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 長, drawn from a person with long hair: long (cháng), and to grow (zhǎng).
How to write 董事长
董 12 strokes · 事 8 strokes · 长 4 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 董事长 (dǒngshìzhǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
董事长 (dǒngshìzhǎng) means “chairman of the board” or “chairman of the board of directors”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dǒngshìzhǎng: dǒng with a 3rd tone, then shì with a 4th tone, then zhǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 董事长 is written 董事長. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dongshizhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 董事长 from the suggestions. Typing dongshizhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
董事长 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
董dǒng3rd tone, dipping
事shì4th tone, falling
