灯
灯 — deung, jeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 등잔 등, 등잔 정
- Romanization
- deung, jeong
- English
- lantern, lamp
- Mandarin
- dēng
- Japanese on'yomi
- トウ, テイ, チン, チョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ひ ほ- ともしび とも.す あかり
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,605 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Variant forms
- 燈
- Radical
- 火 (86, 2 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 丁(정)
- Unicode
- U+706F
Parts that make up 灯
How 灯 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 灯 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 火, 丁.
Japanese words with 灯
- 灯ひ light; lamp
- 灯油とうゆ kerosene; paraffin; lamp oil
- 電灯でんとう electric light
- 灯台とうだい lighthouse; old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it
- 蛍光灯けいこうとう fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react
- 懐中電灯かいちゅうでんとう (electric) torch; flashlight
- 点灯てんとう lighting (a lamp); turning on a light
- 消灯しょうとう putting out the lights; turning off the lights
- 街灯がいとう street light; streetlamp
- 灯火とうか light; lamplight
- 提灯ちょうちん paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern
- 灯火管制とうかかんせい blackout (to prevent being seen by enemy aircraft during a nighttime air raid)
Characters sharing the phonetic 丁
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “정” in Korean.
Other hanja read “등”
Other hanja with radical 火
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