党

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party; association; club; society; CL:個|个[ge4]

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

兄 meaning “elder brother” + 尚 sound ( shàng )

Components 尚兄

political party · Heisig RSH #704

human legs + outhouse

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

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

Characters sharing the sound component 尚 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
尚 sound part	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]