章
chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #848 U+7AE0
How 章 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The ten 十 movements of a piece of music 音
How to remember it
chapter · Heisig RSH #447
sunflower + vase
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 章 as their sound component
These characters all use 章 (zhāng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 章 sound component | zhāng | chapter, section, writing; seal |
| 商 | shāng | commerce, business, trade |
| 障 | zhàng | to separate; shield, barricade |
| 彰 | zhāng | clear, manifest, obvious |
| 漳 | zhāng | a river in Henan province |
| 樟 | zhāng | camphor tree |
| 瘴 | zhàng | malaria; miasma, pestilential vapor |
| 獐 | zhāng | roebuck, hornless river deer |
| 嶂 | zhàng | cliff; the barrier formed by a mountain range |
| 璋 | zhāng | jade plaything; jade ornament |
| 蟑 | zhāng | cockroach |
| 嫜 | zhāng | husband's mother; the lady in the moon |
| 鄣 | zhāng | an ancient city in Jiangsu province |
Words containing 章
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大有文章 | dà yǒu wén zhāng | some deeper meaning in this; more to it than meets the eye; there's sth behind all this |
| 出口成章 | chū kǒu chéng zhāng | (idiom) (of one's speech) eloquent; articulate |
| 表面文章 | biǎo miàn wén zhāng | superficial show; going through the motions |
| 约法三章 | yuē fǎ sān zhāng | to agree on three laws (idiom); three-point covenant; (fig.) preliminary agreement; basic … |
| 章回小说 | zhāng huí xiǎo shuō | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter he… |
| 走马章台 | zǒu mǎ zhāng tái | to go to the brothel on horseback (idiom); to visit prostitutes |
| 四十二章经 | Sì shí èr Zhāng jīng | The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, tra… |
| 顺理成章 | shùn lǐ chéng zhāng | logical; only to be expected; rational and clearly structured (of text) |
| 大费周章 | dà fèi zhōu zhāng | to take great pains; to go to a lot of trouble |
| 麻章区 | Má zhāng Qū | Mazhang, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 章子 | zhāng zi | seal; stamp |
| 会章 | huì zhāng | constitution; bylaws; charter (of an organization etc) |
| 手章 | shǒu zhāng | private seal; stamp inked on the back of one's hand (used to prove that one has paid to en… |
| 公章 | gōng zhāng | official seal |
| 文章 | wén zhāng | article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning; CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4] |
| 断章取义 | duàn zhāng qǔ yì | (idiom) to quote out of context |
| 成章 | chéng zhāng | to form a coherent composition |
| 规章制度 | guī zhāng zhì dù | rules and regulations |
| 官样文章 | guān yàng wén zhāng | officialese; red tape |
| 章台 | zhāng tái | street name in ancient Chang'an synonymous with brothel area; red-light district |