TSUMUGU · A1 (est.) · 字
桶
桶 ＝ 木 ＋ 甬
ㄊㄨㄥˇ · tǒng
noun — bucket, barrel, pail
字源 FORM — what the parts do
甬聲yǒng — gives the sounda hanging bell, a path
Iyǒng → tǒng — the initial shifted off the donor
Wood (木) with 甬 yǒng, the sound. The wooden vessel staved round and bound — the bucket, the barrel. 甬 carries the sound, the initial shifted to tǒng. 甬 also frames 通 tōng and 痛 tòng.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
木條（木）一片片箍成圓筒——裝水的桶。
Wooden staves (木) hooped into a round drum — the water-bucket.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)水桶、木桶— bucket, barrel常用
→一桶、垃圾桶— a bucketful; a bin
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
筒tǒngthe homophone — 筒 takes bamboo (⺮), a tube; 桶 takes wood (), a bucket甬yǒngthe sound donor, bare — a hanging-bell, a passage