Chinese Character Wiki

蕩

dàng

pond

Hot water 湯 wiping out plant life 艹; 湯 also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

湯 sound,meaning component

湯  Sound Meaning component

tāng, shāng

  

hot water

Evolution

蕩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蕩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蕩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蕩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

荡 (蕩) 

dàng

pond, pool; wash away, cleanse; to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond

Most common words with 蕩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

震荡

to shake up

荡妇

slut

荡

to wash

游荡

to wander

淫荡

lascivious

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N.rˤaŋʔ

dangX

dàng

beat furiously (of the heart)

*lˤaŋ-s

dangH

dàng

throw out, purify from


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.4458% of movies

1523rd most common character in movies

1424th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

荡

Unicode

U+8569

Shuowen

“蕩，水。出河內蕩陰，東入黃澤。从水，聲。”


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