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棠

táng

Character

What 棠 means

1. cherry-apple

Words starting with 棠

• 棠梨táng líbirch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia)

Words containing 棠

• 海棠hǎi tángChinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis)
• 左宗棠Zuǒ Zōng tángZuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader
• 海棠区Hǎi táng QūHaitang, a district of Sanya City 三亚市
• 海棠形hǎi táng xíngquatrefoil (usually elongated)
• 海棠花hǎi táng huāChinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis)
• 秋海棠qiū hǎi tángbegonia
• 左宗棠鸡Zuǒ Zōng táng jīGeneral Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish
• 孙毓棠Sūn Yù tángSun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard

Characters that look like 棠

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

• 常chángalways; ever; often
• 装zhuāngadornment; to adorn; dress
• 蒙méng(literary) sincere; honest; genuine
• 窝wōnest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair
• 凿záo(bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic…
• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty

Sounds the same

Read táng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 糖sugar; sweets; candy
• 塘dyke; embankment; pool or pond
• 堂(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the…
• 唐to exaggerate; empty; in vain
• 膛(bound form) hollow space
• 瑭(jade)
• 搪to keep out; to hold off; to ward off
• 螳praying mantis
• 醣carbohydrate; old variant of 糖
• 溏half congealed; pond
• 踼to fall flat; to fall on the face
• 煻to warm; to toast