dāng, dàng
to match
Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Moderndāng
bear, accept, undertake; just; to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
dàng
at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤaŋ | tang | dāng | match (v.); have the value of, rank with |
*tˤaŋ-s | tangH | dàng | suitable |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.6316% of movies
96th most common character in movies
71st most common character in books
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7576 |
Shuowen | “當，田相值也。从田，尚聲。” |
