Chinese Character Wiki

餳

táng, xíng

sugar

Evolution

餳 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
餳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

饧 (餳) 

táng

sugar, syrup; malt sugar; sticky

饧 (餳) 

xíng

maltose syrup; molasses; heavy (eyelids); drowsy-eyed; listless; (of dough, candy etc) to soften; to become soft and sticky

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.lˤaŋ (no pre-Qín exx)

dang

táng

sweets


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5006th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

饧

Unicode

U+9933

Shuowen

“，晝食也。从食，象聲。，或从傷省聲。”


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