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宕

dàng

Character

What 宕 means

1. dissipated
2. put off

Other readings

宕 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• tànused in {宕昌|Tàn chāng} (the name of a place in Gansu)

Example sentences

• 服务器宕机了。
  The server was down.

Words starting with 宕

• 宕机dàng jī(of a computer, server etc) to crash
• 宕昌县Tàn chāng XiànTanchang, a county in Longnan City 陇南市
• 宕昌Tàn chāngsee 宕昌县

Words containing 宕

• 偏宕piān dàngextremely (stubborn, contrary, disobedient etc)
• 延宕yán dàngto postpone; to keep putting sth off
• 拖宕tuō dàngto delay; to postpone
• 推宕tuī dàngto postpone; to delay; to put sth off
• 跌宕diē dànguninhibited; free and unconstrained; rhythmical
• 逸宕yì dàngdissolute
• 流宕忘反liú dàng wàng fǎnto stray and forget to return
• 跌宕昭彰diē dàng zhāo zhāngflowing (of prose); free

Characters built on 石

These share the phonetic component 石 (shí), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 磅bàngscale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound…
• 磉sǎngstone plinth
• 砀dàngstone with color veins
• 硭mángcrude saltpeter

Characters that look like 宕

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 宣xuānto declare (publicly); to announce
• 穷qióngpoor; destitute; to use up
• 宏hónggreat; magnificent; macro (computing)
• 岩yáncliff; rock
• 宥yòuto forgive; to help; profound

Sounds the same

Read dàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 档(bound form) shelves (for files); pigeonholes; (bound form) files…
• 荡to wash; to squander; to sweep away
• 当at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate
• 挡to arrange; to put in order
• 凼pool; pit; ditch
• 菪henbane
• 砀stone with color veins
• 愓profligate
• 垱(dialect) earthen dyke in a river or rice paddy (for irrigation purposes)
• 簜(bamboo)
• 逿to fall; to sway; to cross
• 氹variant of 凼