tīng
sandbar
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 汀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sandbar | ||
Austin, Texas | ||
Changting county level city in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian | ||
Changting county in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian | ||
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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