dàng
pond
Hot water 湯 wiping out plant life 艹; 湯 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N.rˤaŋʔ | dangX | dàng | beat furiously (of the heart) |
*lˤaŋ-s | dangH | dàng | throw out, purify from |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.4458% of movies
1523rd most common character in movies
1424th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8569 |
Shuowen | “蕩,水。出河內蕩陰,東入黃澤。从水,聲。” |
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