dǒng

to supervise

surname Dong; to direct; director

plants (艹) + sound dǒng (重) = director who oversees

艹 connects 董 to plants; 重 primarily gives the approximate sound dǒng. The original sense may have involved supervising crops or overseeing agricultural stores, lending itself to the idea of directing and managing.

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他是公司的事,负责重大决策。

tā shì gōng sī de dǒng shì,fù zé zhòng dà jué cè。

He is a director of the company, responsible for major decisions.

事会今天开会讨论新的发展计划。

dǒng shì huì jīn tiān kāi huì tǎo lùn xīn de fā zhǎn jì huà。

The board of directors is meeting today to discuss new development plans.

Words with 董

骨董

gǔ dǒng

variant of 古董[gu3 dong3]

不知丁董

bù zhī dīng dǒng

forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)

古董

gǔ dǒng

curio

古董滩

gǔ dǒng tān

Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries

联席董事

lián xí dǒng shì

associate director

董事

dǒng shì

board member

董事会

dǒng shì huì

board of directors

董事长

dǒng shì zhǎng

chairman of the board of directors

董仲舒

dǒng zhòng shū

Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the established system of values of former Han dynasty

董卓

dǒng zhuó

Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布

董奉

dǒng fèng

Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead

董座

dǒng zuò

(Tw) chairman (of a board of directors)

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