téng

copy

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
朕 sound component

  Sound component

zhèn

  

pronoun 'I'

言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

Evolution

謄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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téng

copy, transcribe; to transcribe; to copy out; (free word)

Most common words with 謄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to transcribe

誊写

to transcribe

誊录

to copy out

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4971st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B04

Shuowen

“謄,迻書也。从言,朕聲。”


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