téng
fly
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 騰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to torment sb | ||
to soar | ||
to flare up | ||
to make (some time or space) available (for sb) | ||
to gallop |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤəŋ | dong | téng | to mount; oppress |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.9974% of movies
1897th most common character in movies
1635th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A30 |
Shuowen | “騰,傳也。从馬,朕聲。一曰:騰,犗馬也。” |
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