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铛

chēng

Character Traditional 鐺

What 铛 means

1. frying pan
2. griddle

Other readings

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

• dāngclank; clang; sound of metal

Example sentences

• 虽然公山羊羔经常因为无法产奶而被淘汰，但有时它们会被阉割，并作为「阉羊」留在羊群中。这种脖子上挂着铃铛的「领头羊」通常是羊群的领袖。
  Although the male goat kids are often culled because they will never produce milk, they are sometimes castrated instead and allowed to remain in the herd as a "wether". With a bell around its neck, such a "bellwether" is usually the leader for the rest of the herd.
• 这群来自智利和秘鲁安第斯山脉地区的音乐家自称为「瓦伊诺」。他们演奏安地斯山脉的传统音乐，使用古老的乐器，例如木笛、吉他和铃铛。各种各样的音乐家、舞者和默剧演员经常在地铁里表演，靠着小费维持生计，同时也能继续从事他们的艺术创作。
  This group of musicians from the Andes mountain region of Chile and Peru calls itself Wayno. They play the traditional music of the Andes, using age-old instruments like wooden flutes, guitars, and bells. A variety of musicians, dancers and mimes regularly perform in the subways, playing for tips that help them earn a living while practicing their art.

Words starting with 铛

• 铛铛dāng dāng(onomatopoeia) clang; clank of metal; sound of striking a gong
• 铛铛车dāng dāng chē(colloquial) tram, especially Beijing trams during period of operation 1924-1956…

Words containing 铛

• 铃铛líng danglittle bell
• 饼铛bǐng chēngbaking pan
• 鼎铛玉石dǐng chēng yù shílit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom)…
• 锒铛láng dāngiron chains; shackles; (onomatopoeia) clank
• 锒铛入狱láng dāng rù yùlit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom); fig. to be put behind bars; to get jailed

Characters that look like 铛

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

• 健jiànhealthy; to invigorate; to strengthen
• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两
• 铺pūto spread; to display; to set up
• 铝lǚaluminum (chemistry)
• 锂lǐlithium (chemistry)
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read chēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 称to weigh; to state; to name
• 撑to support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole
• 秤to weigh (variant of 称
• 噌sound of bells etc
• 瞠stare at sth beyond reach
• 柽tamarisk
• 琤tinkling of gems
• 蛏mussel; razor clam; Solecurtus constricta
• 晿(used in names)
• 罉(dialect) cooking pot; variant of 铛
• 赪deep red
• 橕a prop; a shore