dāngchēng

frying pan

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
钅 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

当 sound component

  Sound component

dāngdàng

  

to match

Evolution

铛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
铛 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
铛 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
铛 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

dāng

frying pan; warming vessel; clank; clang; sound of metal

() 

chēng

griddle

Most common words with 铛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铃铛

little bell

clank

锒铛入狱

to get jailed

饼铛

baking pan

锒铛

iron chains

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4416% of movies

3008th most common character in movies

4436th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+94DB


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