tíng
main hall, courtyard
Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 廷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 庭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
family | ||
court of law | ||
main hall | ||
to appear in court | ||
to begin a (judicial) court session |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 51.2094% of movies
636th most common character in movies
931st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5EAD |
Shuowen | “庭，宮中也。从广，廷聲。” |
Sources
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