厅

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(reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

广 meaning “spacious” + 丁 sound ( dīng )

Components 厂丁

hall · Heisig RSH #122

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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一房一厅	yī fáng yī tīng	one bedroom and one living room
出港大厅	chū gǎng dà tīng	departure lounge
西花厅	Xī huā tīng	Xihuating pavilion on west side on Zhongnanhai, home to 周恩來\|周恩来
到达大厅	dào dá dà tīng	arrival hall
理发厅	lǐ fà tīng	(Tw) barbershop; hairdresser's; CL:家[jia1]
中共中央办公厅	Zhōng gòng Zhōng yāng Bàn gōng tīng	General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP, which handles administrative, logistic…
美发厅	měi fà tīng	hairdressing salon
市政厅	shì zhèng tīng	city hall
过站大厅	guò zhàn dà tīng	transit lounge
音乐厅	yīn yuè tīng	concert hall; auditorium
离港大厅	lí gǎng dà tīng	departure lounge
迪斯科厅	dí sī kē tīng	disco hall; nightclub
会客厅	huì kè tīng	reception room; parlor
民政厅	mín zhèng tīng	provincial department of civil affairs
点视厅	diǎn shì tīng	hall where convicts are counted and verified
官厅水库	Guān tīng Shuǐ kù	Guanting or Kuan-ting Reservoir in Hebei, one of the main water reservoirs serving Beijing
卫生厅	wèi shēng tīng	(provincial) department of health
环保厅	huán bǎo tīng	(provincial) department of environmental protection
会议厅	huì yì tīng	conference hall
气象厅	qì xiàng tīng	meteorological office

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

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
丁 sound part	dīng	male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem
打	dǎ	to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
宁	níng	calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer
灯	dēng	lamp, lantern, light
顶	dǐng	top, summit, peak; to carry on the head
订	dìng	to make an order; to draw up an agreement
汀	tīng	bank, sandbar; beach, shore
叮	dīng	to persistently exhort or urge; sting (as of an insect)
盯	dīng	to rivet one's gaze upon; to keep eyes on
町	tǐng	a raised path between fields
仃	dīng	lonely, solitary
酊	dīng	drunk, intoxicated
疔	dīng	boil, carbuncle, ulcer
玎	dīng	jingling, tinkling
耵	dīng	earwax