重 (zhòng/chóng) — heavy; important; (chóng) again, layered

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重＝人＋東

ㄓㄨㄥˋ · zhòng/chóng

adj — heavy; important; (chóng) again, layered

字源 FORM — what the parts do

人義a person, bent under the loadwarped into the top and spine of 重

東聲dōng — gives the old sound; itself a tied bundle

{t,d}↔{zh,ch,sh}ITdōng → zhòng — the {d,t}↔{zh,ch} crossing; the bundle sounds on in 動

A person (人) bent under a tied bundle (東) on the back — heavy; 東 lends the old sound too. Read zhòng, the weight itself: 重、重要 — what weighs is what matters. Read chóng, weight laid on a second time: 重複、重新.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

包袱（東）往背上一上，肩膀立刻沉了下去。

The bundle (東) goes onto the back — and the shoulders drop at once.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

zhòng

(本義)沉重、體重— heavy; weight常用

→重要、重視— important — carrying weight

chóng

(引申)重複、重新— again — a second layer laid on

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension