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镗

tāng

Character Traditional 鏜

What 镗 means

1. noise of drums

Characters built on 堂

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

• 膛táng(bound form) hollow space
• 螳tángpraying mantis
• 蹚tāngto wade; to trample

Characters that look like 镗

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

• 镜jìngmirror; lens
• 糖tángsugar; sweets; candy
• 檐yáneaves; ledge or brim
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 镛yōnglarge bell
• 镫dèngstirrup

Sounds the same

Read tāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 汤soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs
• 趟to wade; to trample; to turn the soil
• 羰carbonyl (radical)
• 蹚to wade; to trample
• 㓥(Cantonese) to butcher; to cut open; to chop up (used in 㓥房
• 嘡(onomatopoeia) clang; bong; bang