táng
sugar
Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 唐 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.lˤaŋ (no pre-Qín exx) | dang | táng | sugar |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 28.6881% of movies
1087th most common character in movies
1746th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+7CD6 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“糖，飴也。从米，唐聲。” |
Sources
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