dēng
lantern
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 登 represents the sound.
Evolution

Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-tˤəŋ | tong | dēng | lamp |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.2944% of movies
1053rd most common character in movies
1115th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+71C8 |
Sources
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