堂
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(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 堂
- Common rank
- #591
- Unicode
- U+5802
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Formation & memory
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Words with 堂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人民大会堂 | the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing) | |
| 马尾水师学堂 | Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂|福州船政学堂, set up… | |
| 圣安多尼堂区 | St Anthony Parish (Macau); Freguesia de Santo António | |
| 金堂县 | Jintang, a county in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 人间天堂 | heaven on Earth; nickname for the city Suzhou | |
| 名人堂 | Hall of Fame | |
| 三代同堂 | three generations under one roof | |
| 一言堂 | (sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old); having things decided by the wil… | |
| 大教堂 | cathedral | |
| 教堂山 | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | |
| 林语堂 | Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor | |
| 有不少名堂 | there is a lot to it; not a straightforward matter | |
| 四世同堂 | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍[Lao3 She3] | |
| 四世同堂 | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
| 圣索非亚大教堂 | Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istan… | |
| 大堂 | lobby | |
| 堂区 | parish; civil parish | |
| 花地玛堂区 | Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau); Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima | |
| 主教座堂 | cathedral | |
| 学堂 | college; school (old) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尚 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound part | still, yet; even; fairly, rather | |
| 常 | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly | |
| 党 | political party, gang, faction | |
| 掌 | in charge; the palm of the hand, the sole of the foot | |
| 赏 | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant | |
| 尝 | to taste; to experience, to experiment with | |
| 躺 | to recline, to lie down | |
| 敞 | wide, open, spacious | |
| 棠 | crabapple tree; wild plum | |
| 趟 | time, occasion; to make a journey | |
| 倘 | if, supposing, in event of | |
| 淌 | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears | |
| 裳 | skirt, petticoat; beautiful | |
| 惝 | alarmed, agitated | |
| 徜 | to linger, to walk back and forth | |
| 绱 | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole | |
| 䠀 | to meditate; to sit cross-legged | |
| 牚 | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |