lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
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How to pronounce 燈

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= d initial

D is for Don Quixote.

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+ (e)ng1 final

In front of the engine.

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燈 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
huǒ = hu + o3
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
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dēng = d + (e)ng1
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
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Characters with 燈 as component

燈 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 燈

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Song Dynasty History of Zen Buddhism in China (1252), 20 scrolls
(lit.) to flash the yellow light / (fig.) to give a warning sign

Sentences with 燈

燈 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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dēng

lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]

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