tīng

sandbar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

丁 sound component

  Sound component

dīng

  

cubes

Evolution

汀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
汀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
汀 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
汀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tīng

sandbar, beach, bank, shore; sandbar; shoal; sandbank

Most common words with 汀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

sandbar

奥斯汀

Austin, Texas

长汀

Changting county level city in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian

长汀县

Changting county in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian

水门汀

cement (Shanghainese) (loanword)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤeŋ

theng

tīng

level land beside water


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.7391% of movies

1981st most common character in movies

3163rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+6C40

Shuowen

“汀,平也。从水,丁聲。,汀或从平。”


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