dǎng
political party
Original meaning:
dark
Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "dark". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 黨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
party | ||
Republican Party | ||
Democratic Party | ||
political party member | ||
Communist Party |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤaŋʔ | tangX | dǎng | 500 families; relatives |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.6130% of movies
1504th most common character in movies
411th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9EE8 |
Shuowen | “黨，不鮮也。从黑，尚聲。” |
Sources
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