Chinese Character Wiki

撐

chēng

prop up

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

hand

牚 sound component

牚  Sound component

chēng

  

Definitions

撑 (撐) 

chēng

prop up, support; brace; to push off (with a pole); to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole; to maintain; to open or unfurl; to fill to bursting point; stay; support

Most common words with 撐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

撑

to support

支撑

to prop up

俯卧撑

push-up

撑腰

to support

硬撑

to make oneself do sth in spite of adversity, pain etc

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.2262% of movies

1704th most common character in movies

2183rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

撑

Unicode

U+6490


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