党
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party; association; club; society; CL:個|个[ge4]
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #581 U+515A
How 党 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
兄 (semantic, “elder brother”) + 尚 (phonetic, shàng)
How to remember it
political party · Heisig RSH #704
human legs + outhouse
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 尚
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 尚 (shàng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound component | shàng | still, yet; even; fairly, rather |
| 常 | cháng | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly |
| 堂 | táng | hall, large room; government office; cousins |
| 掌 | zhǎng | in charge; the palm of the hand, the sole of the foot |
| 赏 | shǎng | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant |
| 尝 | cháng | to taste; to experience, to experiment with |
| 躺 | tǎng | to recline, to lie down |
| 敞 | chǎng | wide, open, spacious |
| 棠 | táng | crabapple tree; wild plum |
| 趟 | tàng | time, occasion; to make a journey |
| 倘 | tǎng | if, supposing, in event of |
| 淌 | tǎng | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears |
| 裳 | cháng | skirt, petticoat; beautiful |
| 惝 | chǎng | alarmed, agitated |
| 徜 | cháng | to linger, to walk back and forth |
| 绱 | shàng | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole |
| 䠀 | chǎng | to meditate; to sit cross-legged |
| 牚 | chēng | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |
Words containing 党
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人民行动党 | Rén mín Xíng dòng dǎng | People's Action Party (ruling party in Singapore) |
| 中国新民党 | Zhōng guó Xīn mín dǎng | New Democracy Party of China, a short-lived party founded in 2007 by human rights activist… |
| 民主党人 | mín zhǔ dǎng rén | Democrat (Democratic Party member or supporter) |
| 国大党 | Guó dà dǎng | Indian Congress party |
| 上党区 | Shàng dǎng Qū | Shangdang, a district of Changzhi City 長治市|长治市[Chang2 zhi4 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 工人党 | Gōng rén dǎng | Workers' Party (Singapore opposition party) |
| 党外人士 | dǎng wài rén shì | non-party members |
| 光头党 | guāng tóu dǎng | skinheads |
| 德国统一社会党 | Dé guó Tǒng yī Shè huì dǎng | Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1949-1990), t… |
| 印度国大党 | Yìn dù Guó dà dǎng | Indian Congress party |
| 人民党 | rén mín dǎng | People's party (of various countries) |
| 国民党 | Guó mín dǎng | Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party |
| 金光党 | jīn guāng dǎng | racketeers; con artists |
| 自民党 | Zì mín dǎng | Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party) |
| 多数党 | duō shù dǎng | majority party |
| 库尔德工人党 | Kù ěr dé Gōng rén dǎng | Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK) |
| 中国共产党 | Zhōng guó Gòng chǎn dǎng | Communist Party of China |
| 黑手党 | hēi shǒu dǎng | mafia |
| 民主党 | Mín zhǔ dǎng | Democratic Party |
| 印度人民党 | Yìn dù rén mín dǎng | Bharatiya Janata Party |