Character Details
| act as/work as (to); in one's presence | Ascii: — | w277 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 当 | dāng | dahng | 1 | ⺌ (small) + 彐 (snout) → to act as | 当 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Some mothers use a small broom to hit their children when they misbehave and don't work as told. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - serve as, for the purpose of | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Absolutely! | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 60 - 小 | xiǎo | small | small | three small dots | 小 少 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| ⺌ (small) + 彐 (snout) → to act as | 彐 (semantic origin) | 田 (phonetic) | phonetic from 田 | ||||||||