dēng
rise
Depicts two feet (癶) rising onto a stone platform (豆) to board into a vehicle.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dēng
rise, mount, board, climb; to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
Most common words with 登
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to register (one's name) | ||
to ascend | ||
to land | ||
to go on stage | ||
to register |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-tˤəŋ | tong | dēng | a kind of sacrificial vessel |
*tˤəŋ | tong | dēng | ascend |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 34.6468% of movies
942nd most common character in movies
817th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+767B |
Shuowen | “登，上車也。从癶、豆，象登車形。，籀文登从収。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.112-113
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