棠
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cherry-apple
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How 棠 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “tree”) + 尚 (phonetic, shàng)
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 |
| 堂 | táng | hall, large room; government office; cousins |
| 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 |
| 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 棠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海棠区 | Hǎi táng Qū | Haitang, a district of Sanya City 三亞市|三亚市[San1 ya4 Shi4], Hainan |
| 海棠花 | hǎi táng huā | Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis) |
| 海棠形 | hǎi táng xíng | quatrefoil (usually elongated) |
| 左宗棠鸡 | Zuǒ Zōng táng jī | General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish |
| 秋海棠 | qiū hǎi táng | begonia |
| 海棠 | Hǎi táng | see 海棠區|海棠区[Hai3 tang2 Qu1] |
| 海棠 | hǎi táng | Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis) |
| 左宗棠 | Zuǒ Zōng táng | Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader |
| 棠梨 | táng lí | birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia) |
| 孙毓棠 | Sūn Yù táng | Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard |