廷
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palace courtyard
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 廴 +4
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 廷
- Common rank
- #2,411
- Unicode
- U+5EF7
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 廷 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
place
Components 廴 壬
How to remember it
royal court · Heisig RSH #854
porter + stretch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 廷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗马教廷 | the Church (as Royal Court); the Holy See; the Vatican | |
| 廷巴克图 | Timbuktoo (town and historical cultural center in Mali, a World Heritage site) | |
| 西斯廷 | Sistine (Chapel); also written 西斯汀 | |
| 教廷大使 | an ambassador of the church; an Apostolic Nuncio (from the Vatican) | |
| 阿根廷 | Argentina | |
| 张廷玉 | Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, o… | |
| 谢长廷 | Frank Chang-ting Hsieh (1946-), Taiwanese DPP politician, mayor of Kaohsiung 1998-2005 | |
| 廷布 | Thimphu, capital of Bhutan | |
| 清廷 | the Qing court (as government of China) | |
| 教廷 | the Papacy; the Vatican; the Holy See | |
| 内廷 | place at the imperial court, where emperor handled government affairs, gave orders etc | |
| 朝廷 | court; imperial household; dynasty | |
| 陆荣廷 | Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leade… | |
| 廷试 | court examination, the top grade imperial exam | |
| 亨廷顿舞蹈症 | Huntington's disease | |
| 宫廷 | court (of king or emperor) | |
| 鲍罗廷 | Borodin (name); Alexander Porfirevich Borodin (1833-1887), Russian chemist and composer | |
| 昆廷 | Quentin (name) | |
| 伍廷芳 | Wu Tingfang (1842-1922), diplomat and lawyer | |
| 廷尉 | chief judicial officer in imperial China |
Sound family
These characters use 廷 as their sound component — compare how they read.