膛
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(bound form) hollow space
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 肉 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 膛
- Common rank
- #3,024
- Unicode
- U+819B
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Formation & memory
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How 膛 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hall 堂 in one's chest ⺼; 堂 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
chest · Heisig RSH #1958
flesh + 堂 main room
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 膛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开膛手杰克 | Jack the Ripper | |
| 上牙膛 | palate (roof of the mouth) | |
| 上膛 | roof of the mouth; to load a gun | |
| 膛线 | rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun) | |
| 脸膛 | facial contour; facial shape | |
| 胸膛 | chest | |
| 枪膛 | bore of a gun | |
| 滑膛 | smoothbore | |
| 膛径 | caliber (of a gun) | |
| 炸膛 | (of a gun) to explode; to blow up | |
| 炉膛 | furnace chamber; stove chamber |