táng

hall

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
尚 sound component

  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

Evolution

堂 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
堂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
堂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

táng

hall; government office; (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:|[jiān]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture

Most common words with 堂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

教堂

church

天堂

paradise

(main) hall

课堂

classroom

食堂

dining hall

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤaŋ

dang

táng

hall


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 38.5712% of movies

911th most common character in movies

980th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5802

Shuowen

“堂,殿也。从土,尚聲。坣,古文堂。,籀文堂从高。”


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