登
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to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
ascend · Heisig RSH #1301
table + teepee
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 登
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 登山家 | mountaineer | |
| 文登区 | Wendeng, a district of Weihai City 威海市[Wei1 hai3 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 登机入口 | boarding gate | |
| 温布尔登网球公开赛 | Wimbledon Championships (tennis) | |
| 登山车 | mountain bike (Tw) | |
| 登机口 | departure gate (aviation) | |
| 登机门 | boarding gate | |
| 一步登天 | reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant succ… | |
| 单一登入 | (Tw) single sign-on (SSO) | |
| 普罗维登斯 | Providence, capital of Rhode Island | |
| 本拉登 | (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda | |
| 登出来 | to publish; to appear (in print) | |
| 不登大雅之堂 | lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork); not presentable; coarse; unrefined | |
| 本·拉登 | Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda | |
| 温布尔登 | Wimbledon (district of southwest London); Wimbledon Championships (tennis) | |
| 难于登天 | harder than climbing to heaven (idiom) | |
| 哈尔登 | Halden (city in Norway) | |
| 德勒斯登 | (Tw) Dresden, capital of Saxony, Germany | |
| 登山 | to climb a mountain; climbing; mountaineering | |
| 小登 | (slang) youngster; kid (humorous or self-deprecating neologism derived from 老登[lao3 deng1]… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 豆 — compare how they read.