燈

See also 灯

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 (“candlelight”) + phonetic 登

Han character

燈 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火弓人廿 (FNOT), four-corner 9281₈, composition ⿰火登)

1. lantern, lamp

References

• KangXi: page 682, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19402
• Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2238, character 11
• Unihan data for U+71C8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

燈 (simplified 灯, Yale dang1)

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Hmong

Hanzi

燈

1. light, lamp

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Japanese

Kanji

燈 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: ともしび (tomoshibi), ひ (hi)

Compounds

• 燈籠 (とうろう)

Suffix

燈 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai 灯, hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. light

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Korean

Hanja

燈 (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune-Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

燈 (simplified 灯, pinyin dēng (deng1), Wade-Giles teng¹)

Compounds

• 燈泡

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Vietnamese

Han character

燈 (đăng)