téng

fly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

朕 sound component

  Sound component

zhèn

  

pronoun 'I'

Evolution

腾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
腾 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
腾 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

téng

fly; gallop; run; prance; rise; to soar; to gallop; to prance; to turn over; to vacate; to clear

Most common words with 腾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

折腾

to torment sb

to soar

沸腾

to flare up

腾出

to make (some time or space) available (for sb)

奔腾

to gallop

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.9974% of movies

1897th most common character in movies

1635th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+817E


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