Chinese Character Wiki

挡

dǎng, dàng

obstruct

A hand 扌 raised at the right time 当; 当 also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

当 sound,meaning component

当  Sound Meaning component

dāng, dàng

  

to match

Evolution

挡 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
挡 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

挡 (擋) 

dǎng

to obstruct; shut out; shelter from; keep off; stop; resist; to resist; to hinder; to keep off; to block (a blow); to get in the way of; cover; gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

挡 (擋) 

dàng

to arrange; to put in order

挡 (攩) 

dǎng

variant of 擋|挡[dǎng]

Most common words with 挡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挡

to resist

挡住

to obstruct

阻挡

to stop

抵挡

to resist

遮挡

to shelter

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 22.6814% of movies

1491st most common character in movies

1933rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

擋

Unicode

U+6321


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