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唐

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to exaggerate; empty; in vain; old variant of 螗[tang2]

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
10
Radical
口 +7
Structure
Upper-left enclosure 左上包
Traditional
唐
Common rank
#881
Unicode
U+5510

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Formation & memory

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How 唐 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Children learning how to read 口 and write 肀 in school 广

Components 广 肀 口

How to remember it

Tang · Heisig RSH #954

cave + rake + 口 mouth

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 唐

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

WordPinyinMeaning
唐古拉山 Táng gǔ lā Shān Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
唐山市 Táng shān Shì Tangshan, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
唐家山 Táng jiā shān area in Beichuan county Sichuan
行唐县 Xíng táng Xiàn Xingtang, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei
高唐县 Gāo táng Xiàn Gaotang, a county in Liaocheng City 聊城市[Liao2 cheng2 Shi4], Shandong
唐手道 Táng shǒu dào Tang soo do (Korean martial art)
唐河县 Táng hé Xiàn Tanghe, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市[Nan2 yang2 Shi4], Henan
唐山大地震 Táng shān Dà dì zhèn Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976)
新唐书 Xīn Táng shū History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 …
唐古拉 Táng gǔ lā Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[Qing1 Zang4 gao1 yua…
唐古拉山脉 Táng gǔ lā Shān mài Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
唐初四大家 Táng chū Sì Dà jiā Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang; refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南[Yu2 Shi4 nan2], Ouyang Xun…
唐纳德 Táng nà dé (name) Donald
大唐 Dà Táng the Tang dynasty (618-907)
唐太宗李卫公问对 Táng Tài zōng Lǐ Wèi Gōng Wèn duì "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang", military treatise attributed to Li Jin…
唐人 táng rén (used in overseas Cantonese communities) Chinese person
唐县 Táng Xiàn Tang County or Tangxian, a county in Baoding City 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4], Hebei
唐山 Táng shān see 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4]; China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese)
唐花 táng huā hothouse flower (i.e. flower grown in a greenhouse)
行唐 Xíng táng see 行唐縣|行唐县[Xing2 tang2 Xian4]

Sound family

These characters use 唐 as their sound component — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
唐 sound part táng the Tang dynasty; Chinese; empty, exaggerated; surname
糖 táng candy, sugar, sweets
塘 táng pond, tank; dike, embankment
搪 táng to parry, to block; to ward off, to evade
醣 táng carbohydrate
溏 táng pool, pond; not hardened, semi-soft
瑭 táng a kind of jade
螗 táng a kind of cicada