唐
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to exaggerate; empty; in vain; old variant of 螗[tang2]
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #882 U+5510
How 唐 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
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How to remember it
Tang · Heisig RSH #954
cave + rake + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 唐 as their sound component
These characters all use 唐 (táng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 唐 sound component | táng | the Tang dynasty; Chinese; empty, exaggerated; surname |
| 糖 | táng | candy, sugar, sweets |
| 塘 | táng | pond, tank; dike, embankment |
| 搪 | táng | to parry, to block; to ward off, to evade |
| 醣 | táng | carbohydrate |
| 溏 | táng | pool, pond; not hardened, semi-soft |
| 瑭 | táng | a kind of jade |
| 螗 | táng | a kind of cicada |
Words containing 唐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 唐古拉山 | Táng gǔ lā Shān | Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau |
| 唐山市 | Táng shān Shì | Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 唐家山 | Táng jiā shān | area in Beichuan county Sichuan |
| 行唐县 | Xíng táng Xiàn | Xingtang, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 高唐县 | Gāo táng Xiàn | Gaotang, a county in Liaocheng City 聊城市[Liao2 cheng2 Shi4], Shandong |
| 唐手道 | Táng shǒu dào | Tang soo do (Korean martial art) |
| 唐河县 | Táng hé Xiàn | Tanghe, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市[Nan2 yang2 Shi4], Henan |
| 唐山大地震 | Táng shān Dà dì zhèn | Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976) |
| 新唐书 | Xīn Táng shū | History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 … |
| 唐古拉 | Táng gǔ lā | Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[Qing1 Zang4 gao1 yua… |
| 唐古拉山脉 | Táng gǔ lā Shān mài | Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau |
| 唐初四大家 | Táng chū Sì Dà jiā | Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang; refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南[Yu2 Shi4 nan2], Ouyang Xun… |
| 唐纳德 | Táng nà dé | (name) Donald |
| 唐人 | táng rén | (used in overseas Cantonese communities) Chinese person |
| 大唐 | Dà Táng | the Tang dynasty (618-907) |
| 唐太宗李卫公问对 | Táng Tài zōng Lǐ Wèi Gōng Wèn duì | "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang", military treatise attributed to Li Jin… |
| 唐县 | Táng Xiàn | Tang County or Tangxian, a county in Baoding City 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4], Hebei |
| 唐山 | Táng shān | see 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4]; China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese) |
| 行唐 | Xíng táng | see 行唐縣|行唐县[Xing2 tang2 Xian4] |
| 唐花 | táng huā | hothouse flower (i.e. flower grown in a greenhouse) |