Hanja Analyzer
党

党 — dang

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
무리 당
Romanization
dang
English
political party, gang, faction
Mandarin
dǎng
Japanese on'yomi
トウ, ショウ
Japanese kun'yomi
なかま むら
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 6
Newspaper frequency
#39 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Variant forms
黨
Radical
儿 (10, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
尚
Unicode
U+515A

Parts that make up 党

  • 尚 오히려 상sound 향할 향(向)에 八 을 더한 모양높이는 일. ‘상·당’ 계열의 소리
  • 兄 형 형 입을 크게 벌린 사람형, 그리고 빎. ‘형·황’ 계열의 소리

How 党 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 党 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 尚, 儿.

Japanese words with 党

  • 政党せいとう political party
  • 野党やとう opposition party; the opposition
  • 与党よとう ruling party; government party; party in power
  • 新党しんとう new (political) party
  • 共産党きょうさんとう Communist Party
  • 社会党しゃかいとう Socialist Party
  • 自民党じみんとう Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
  • 党とう party (political); person who is fond of; fan of
  • 党首とうしゅ party leader
  • 党内とうない party-internal; within the party
  • 同党どうとう same (political) party; the said party
  • 両党りょうとう both (political) parties

Characters sharing the phonetic 尚

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “당”

Other hanja with radical 儿

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