in English

zǒng adverb, verb, adjective HSK 3
general / overall / to sum up / in every case / always / invariably / anyway / after all / eventually / sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc

Stroke order

Le caractère 总 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 总 Show the animation
Le caractère 總 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 總, the traditional character: 总 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • Tatoeba: 因为语言意义不只是单字的总合。

    Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.

  • Tom总是想坐在第一排。

    Tom always wants to sit in the front row.

  • 不管是谁总比没人好。

    Anybody would be better than nobody.

  • 为何两位总是在打架?

    Why are you two always fighting?

  • 主场队总是比对手有优势。

    The home team always have an advantage over their opponents.

  • 人的行为不总是理性的。

    People don't always behave rationally.

  • 他以总统的身份访问了日本。

    He visited Japan in the character of President.

  • 他们决定选他为总统。

    They decided to choose him to be president.

All example sentences with 总

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