dāng, chēng
frying pan
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 當 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鐺
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
little bell | ||
clank | ||
to get jailed | ||
baking pan | ||
iron chains |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4416% of movies
3008th most common character in movies
4436th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+943A |
Shuowen | “鐺,鋃鐺也。从金,當聲。” |
Sources
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