灯
lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
灯 character breakdown
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
丁
=
一
+
亅
:
Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.
Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
Characters with 灯 as component
灯
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 灯
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
Sentences with 灯
灯 currently does not appear in any sentence.