熨 (tong3 wan6 wat1 | yun4 yu4) : iron, press (clothes)

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

熨

tong3 wan6 wat1

yun4 yu4

[粵] tong3 wan6 | [國] yun4
[v] iron; press (clothes)

[粵] wat1 | [國] yu4
[adj] appropriate; apt

For the 'iron/press' meaning, Jyutping wan6 is the standard reading, and tong3 is colloquial but much more popular.

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 15

Level: 2

Radical: 火 (#86)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

熨

This word has been viewed 6359 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 16th Dec 2011 13:41

Output this character as a high resolution image

熨燙 wan6 tong3 yun4 tang4 = a clothes iron

熨衫 tong3 saam1 = to iron clothes 粵

熨斗 tong3 dau2 yun4 dou3 = iron

電熨斗 din6 tong3 dau2 dian4 yun4 dou3 = electric iron

蒸氣熨斗 zing1 hei3 tong3 dau2 zheng1 qi4 yun4 dou3 = a steam iron

熨衫板 tong3 saam1 baan2 = iron board 粵

熨衣板 tong3 ji1 baan2 yun4 yi1 ban3 = iron board

Showing all 2 examples containing 熨

兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫，我攞咗佢去熨。粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed.
[Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed.
[[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ]

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2516/]熨[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2516/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">熨</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 熨
Unicode code for this character: U+71a8 (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum