Sinograph Addenda · Signs

same

Name	same
Reads	tóng
Means	same, together
Taught in	13 · Like and alike

Where it comes from

A covering piece held over a mouth 口 — the classic parse: everyone under one roof-piece, saying the same thing. Sameness, togetherness, agreement. Taught in the like-and-alike chapter.

How to remember it

One cover, one voice: same.

In the wild

與子同袍。yǔ zǐ tóng páo"I will share my war-coat with you" — the soldiers' oath from the Odes: same cloak, same battle, same fate.

Odes, "No clothes?" (無衣) — the brotherhood song. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1c0001:011:44a · license: attribution.