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躺

tǎng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

躺 (tǎng) means "to lie down". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 躺 means

1. to recline
2. to lie down

Example sentences

• 他仰躺。
  He lay on his back.
• 你躺下来。
  You lie down.
• 躺着不动。
  Lie still.
• 躺在你右边。
  Tǎng zài nǐ yòubian.
  Lie on your right side.
• 我躺在床上。
  I lay on my bed.
• 他躺在床上。
  He stayed in bed.

Words starting with 躺

• 躺下tǎng xiàto lie down
• 躺椅tǎng yǐdeck chair; recliner; couch
• 躺倒tǎng dǎoto lie down
• 躺尸tǎng shī(deprecatory) to lie motionless (asleep, drunk, lazing etc)
• 躺平tǎng píngto lie stretched out; (neologism, attested by 2021) to opt out of the rat race
• 躺枪tǎng qiāng(neologism, attested by 2014) (coll.) to be criticized, blamed or implicated in sth…
• 躺赢tǎng yíngto win without needing to even lift a finger; victory presented on a platter
• 躺着也中枪tǎng zhe yě zhòng qiāng(net slang) (lit.) to get shot even though lying down; (fig.) to be unfairly targeted

Words containing 躺

• 仰躺yǎng tǎngto lie on one's back
• 侧躺cè tǎngto lie down (on one's side)
• 横躺héng tǎngto lie flat
• 地躺拳dì tǎng quánDi Tang Quan - "Ground-Prone Fist"; "Ground Tumbling Boxing" - Martial Art
• 斜躺xié tǎngto recline
• 横躺竖卧héng tǎng shù wòto lie down all over the place; exhausted and in disarray
• 葛优躺Gě Yōu tǎngsee 北京瘫

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
• 倘tǎngif; supposing; in case
• 趟tàngclassifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip
• 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 躺

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

• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú
• 粼línclear (as of water)
• 鲷diāoporgy; pagrus major
• 翱áosee 翱翔
• 獭tǎotter; Taiwan pr. tà
• 赭zhěocher

Sounds the same

Read tǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倘if; supposing; in case
• 淌to drip; to trickle; to shed (tears)
• 帑state treasury; public funds
• 埫flat land; (used in place names)
• 镋ancient weapon resembling a pitchfork
• 傥(literary) variant of 倘; used in 倜傥

Where 躺 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Movement & physical actions (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 tǎng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.