堂
(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
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #592 U+5802
How 堂 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 尚 (phonetic, shàng)
How to remember it
main room · Heisig RSH #706
outhouse + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 尚
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 尚 (shàng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound component | shàng | still, yet; even; fairly, rather |
| 常 | cháng | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly |
| 党 | dǎng | political party, gang, faction |
| 掌 | zhǎng | in charge; the palm of the hand, the sole of the foot |
| 赏 | shǎng | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant |
| 尝 | cháng | to taste; to experience, to experiment with |
| 躺 | tǎng | to recline, to lie down |
| 敞 | chǎng | wide, open, spacious |
| 棠 | táng | crabapple tree; wild plum |
| 趟 | tàng | time, occasion; to make a journey |
| 倘 | tǎng | if, supposing, in event of |
| 淌 | tǎng | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears |
| 裳 | cháng | skirt, petticoat; beautiful |
| 惝 | chǎng | alarmed, agitated |
| 徜 | cháng | to linger, to walk back and forth |
| 绱 | shàng | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole |
| 䠀 | chǎng | to meditate; to sit cross-legged |
| 牚 | chēng | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |
Words containing 堂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人民大会堂 | Rén mín Dà huì táng | the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing) |
| 马尾水师学堂 | Mǎ wěi shuǐ shī xué táng | 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 | Shèng ān duō ní táng qū | St Anthony Parish (Macau); Freguesia de Santo António |
| 金堂县 | Jīn táng Xiàn | Jintang, a county in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 人间天堂 | rén jiān tiān táng | heaven on Earth; nickname for the city Suzhou |
| 名人堂 | míng rén táng | Hall of Fame |
| 三代同堂 | sān dài tóng táng | three generations under one roof |
| 一言堂 | yī yán táng | (sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old); having things decided by the wil… |
| 大教堂 | dà jiào táng | cathedral |
| 教堂山 | Jiào táng Shān | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 林语堂 | Lín Yǔ táng | Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor |
| 有不少名堂 | yǒu bù shǎo míng tang | there is a lot to it; not a straightforward matter |
| 四世同堂 | Sì Shì Tóng táng | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍[Lao3 She3] |
| 四世同堂 | sì shì tóng táng | four generations under one roof (idiom) |
| 圣索非亚大教堂 | Shèng suǒ fēi yà Dà jiào táng | Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istan… |
| 大堂 | dà táng | lobby |
| 堂区 | táng qū | parish; civil parish |
| 花地玛堂区 | Huā dì mǎ táng qū | Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau); Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima |
| 主教座堂 | zhǔ jiào zuò táng | cathedral |
| 学堂 | xué táng | college; school (old) |