Skip to content

同志

tóng zhì 2–4

comrade; (slang) homosexual

HSK level
HSK 7
HSK 2.0 level 6 · HSK 3.0 level 7
Characters
2
同 · 志
Syllables
2
tóng zhì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,228

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 同tóng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 衕same, similar; together with
  • 志zhì7 strokesHSK 3 traditional 誌purpose, will, determination; annals

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我是同志。

    Wǒ shì tóng zhì

    I'm gay.

  • 你是同志。

    Nǐ shì tóng zhì

    You're gay.

  • 快步前进，同志们！

    Kuài bù qián jìn tóng zhì men

    Hurry on, comrades!

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 同志. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

Keep going