dǎng
political party
Original meaning:
dark
Simplified form of 黨. Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "dark". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 党
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
party | ||
Republican Party | ||
Democratic Party | ||
political party member | ||
Communist Party |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.6130% of movies
1504th most common character in movies
411th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+515A |
Sources
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