廷

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palace courtyard

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

place

components: 廴壬

royal court · Heisig RSH #854

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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 廷 as their sound component

These characters all use 廷 (tíng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
廷 sound component	tíng	courtyard
艇	tǐng	dugout, punt, small boat
挺	tǐng	to straighten, to stand upright; rigid, stiff
蜓	tíng	dragonfly
霆	tíng	a sudden peal of thunder
铤	tǐng	ingots, metal bars; to hurry
梃	tǐng	stalk, wooden club; straight
莛	tíng	blades of grass

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
罗马教廷	Luó mǎ jiào tíng	the Church (as Royal Court); the Holy See; the Vatican
廷巴克图	Tíng bā kè tú	Timbuktoo (town and historical cultural center in Mali, a World Heritage site)
西斯廷	Xī sī tíng	Sistine (Chapel); also written 西斯汀
教廷大使	jiào tíng dà shǐ	an ambassador of the church; an Apostolic Nuncio (from the Vatican)
阿根廷	Ā gēn tíng	Argentina
张廷玉	Zhāng Tíng yù	Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, o…
谢长廷	Xiè Cháng tíng	Frank Chang-ting Hsieh (1946-), Taiwanese DPP politician, mayor of Kaohsiung 1998-2005
廷布	Tíng bù	Thimphu, capital of Bhutan
清廷	Qīng tíng	the Qing court (as government of China)
教廷	Jiào tíng	the Papacy; the Vatican; the Holy See
内廷	nèi tíng	place at the imperial court, where emperor handled government affairs, gave orders etc
朝廷	cháo tíng	court; imperial household; dynasty
陆荣廷	Lù Róng tíng	Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leade…
廷试	tíng shì	court examination, the top grade imperial exam
亨廷顿舞蹈症	Hēng tíng dùn wǔ dǎo zhèng	Huntington's disease
宫廷	gōng tíng	court (of king or emperor)
鲍罗廷	Bào luó tíng	Borodin (name); Alexander Porfirevich Borodin (1833-1887), Russian chemist and composer
昆廷	Kūn tíng	Quentin (name)
伍廷芳	Wǔ Tíng fāng	Wu Tingfang (1842-1922), diplomat and lawyer
廷尉	tíng wèi	chief judicial officer in imperial China