Character Details
| light | Ascii: — | w893 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 灯 | dēng | deung | 1 | 火 (fire) + 丁 (nail) → lamp | 灯 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Imagine old gas lamps which had a fire to light up the street signs. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - --Research Pending-- | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 31 - 气 | qì | fire | steam, air | rising vapor | 气 氧 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 火 (fire) + 丁 (nail) → lamp | 火 (fire) | 丁 (dīng) | 丁 is phonetic; 火 gives semantic “light/fire” | ||||||||