棠
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cherry-apple
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 木 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 棠
- Common rank
- #3,177
- Unicode
- U+68E0
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Formation & memory
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Words with 棠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海棠区 | Haitang, a district of Sanya City 三亞市|三亚市[San1 ya4 Shi4], Hainan | |
| 海棠花 | Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis) | |
| 海棠形 | quatrefoil (usually elongated) | |
| 左宗棠鸡 | General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish | |
| 秋海棠 | begonia | |
| 海棠 | see 海棠區|海棠区[Hai3 tang2 Qu1] | |
| 海棠 | Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis) | |
| 左宗棠 | Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader | |
| 棠梨 | birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia) | |
| 孙毓棠 | Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard |
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 | |
| 堂 | hall, large room; government office; cousins | |
| 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 | |
| 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] |