dǎng

political party

Original meaning: 

dark

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "dark". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
尚 sound component

  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

儿 simplified component

  Simplified component

rénérr

  

child

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

Evolution

党 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
党 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
党 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
党 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
党 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

dǎng

political party, gang, faction; party; association; club; society; CL:|[gè]

() 

Dǎng

surname Dang

Most common words with 党
Freq.
Word
Meaning

party

共和党

Republican Party

民主党

Democratic Party

党员

political party member

共产党

Communist Party

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.6130% of movies

1504th most common character in movies

411th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+515A


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