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趟

tàng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

趟 (tàng) means "classifier for trips or runs (of a journey)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 趟 means

1. classifier for times, round trips or rows
2. a time
3. a trip

How 趟 is used in grammar

趟 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Action measure words: 次/遍/趟/顿/场 (HSK 4)
• Frequency complement: V+次/遍/趟 (HSK 4)

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 4, measure words (动量词).

Other readings

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

• tāngto wade; to trample; to turn the soil
• tāngold variant of {趟|tāng}

Example sentences

• 我得去趟图书馆。
  I have to go to the library.
• 这趟火车开往伦敦。
  Zhè tàng huǒchē kāi wǎng Lúndūn.
  This train is going to London.
• 请来我办公室一趟。
  Please come in to my office.
• 下一趟旅行要去哪？
  Where are we going to travel to next?
• 我们去了一趟俄罗斯。
  Wǒmen qù le yī tàng éluósī.
  We went to Russia.
• 这趟火车有卧铺车吗？
  Does this train have a sleeping car?

Words starting with 趟

• 趟浑水tāng hún shuǐ(fig.) to get involved in an unsavory enterprise

Words containing 趟

• 单趟dān tàngsingle trip
• 转一趟zhuàn yī tàngto go on a trip
• 白跑一趟bái pǎo yī tàngto go on an errand for nothing; to go on a wild-goose chase
• 空跑一趟kōng pǎo yī tàngto make a journey for nothing

Characters built on 尚

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

• 敞chǎngopen to the view of all; spacious; to open wide
• 躺tǎngto recline; to lie down
• 倘tǎngif; supposing; in case
• 淌tǎngto drip; to trickle; to shed (tears)
• 徜chángsit cross-legged; walk back and forth
• 惝chǎngdisappointed; listless; frightened
• 绱shàngto sole a shoe

Characters that look like 趟

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

• 趣qùinteresting; to interest
• 糙cāorough; coarse (in texture)
• 撅juēto protrude; to stick out; to pout (also written 噘)
• 璇xuán(jade)
• 赭zhěocher
• 燧suì(bound form) material or tool used to light a fire by means of friction or the sun's…

Sounds the same

Read tàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烫to scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking)

Where 趟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & classifiers (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.