党 (dǎng): party, association, club
党 (dǎng) is a Chinese character meaning “party.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 尚 (phonetic) and 兄 (semantic). It ranks #411 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 党 elder brother. Its radical form 儿 (legs) appears in many related characters such as 儿 (ér, child), 元 (yuán, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)), 先 (xiān, beforehand).
Definitions
- party
- association
- club
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共和党proper-noun | gòng hé dǎng | Republican Party |
| 民主党noun | mín zhǔ dǎng | Democratic Party |
| 黑手党noun | hēi shǒu dǎng | mafia |
| 共产党noun | gòng chǎn dǎng | Communist Party |
| 死党noun | sǐ dǎng | best friends |
| 党派noun | dǎng pài | political party |
| 政党noun | zhèng dǎng | political party |
| 党员noun | dǎng yuán | party member |
| 自由党proper-noun | zì yóu dǎng | Liberal Party |
| 党内 | dǎng nèi | within the party (esp. Chinese communist party) |
| 保守党proper-noun | bǎo shǒu dǎng | conservative political parties |
| 真主党proper-noun | zhēn zhǔ dǎng | Hezbollah (Lebanon Islamic group) |
| 反对党noun | fǎn duì dǎng | opposition (political) party |
| 复兴党noun | fù xīng dǎng | Baath Party |
| 同党noun | tóng dǎng | to belong to the same party or organization |
党 appears in 100 compound words: 32 as the first character, 63 as the last, and 5 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 党 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
党字的写法很特别，让我印象深刻。
dǎng zì de xiě fǎ hěn tè bié , ràng wǒ yìn xiàng shēn kè .
The character for "Party" has a very distinctive way of being written, which left a deep impression on me.
拚民进党新北初选出线 蔡美华邀桃园2绿议员汐止扫...
拚 mín jìn dǎng xīn běi chū xuǎn chū xiàn 蔡 měi huá yāo táo yuán 2 lǜ yì yuán 汐 zhǐ sǎo . . .
Fighting for the DPP's New Taipei primary election line, Cai Meihua invited Taoyuan 2 green lawmakers Xizhi to sweep...
民主党批特朗普搁置对华禁令 危及美国安全
mín zhǔ dǎng pī tè lǎng pǔ gē zhì duì huá jīn lìng wēi jí měi guó ān quán
Democrats criticized Trump for shelving the ban on China, endangering US security
民众党疑122条款恐使我失出口优势 卓荣泰:台...
mín zhòng dǎng yí 1 2 2 tiáo kuǎn kǒng shǐ wǒ shī chū kǒu yōu shì zhuó róng tài : tái . . .
The People's Party suspects that the 122 clause may make me lose my export advantage Zhuo Rongtai: Taiwan...
全球退党中心参加纽约新年游行 华人致敬
quán qiú tuì dǎng zhōng xīn cān jiā niǔ yuē xīn nián yóu háng huá rén zhì jìng
The Global Center for Withdrawal from the Party participates in the New York New Year's Parade Chinese tribute
新春走基层丨国网株洲供电公司党员突击队护航春节绿色..
xīn chūn zǒu jī céng 丨 guó wǎng zhū zhōu gōng diàn gōng sī dǎng yuán tū jī duì hù háng chūn jié lǜ sè . .
New Year to the grassroots丨State Grid Zhuzhou Power Supply Company party member commando escorts the Spring Festival green:
我自愿加入中国共产党。
Wǒ zìyuàn jiārù Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng.
I willingly join the Chinese Communist Party.
这个组织跟任何政党没有联系。
Zhège zǔzhī gēn rènhé zhèngdǎng méiyǒu liánxì.
The organization is not connected with any political parties.
总理的发言估计激怒了在野党。
Zǒnglǐ de fāyán gūjì jīnù le zàiyědǎng.
The Prime Minister's speech was calculated to anger the opposition parties.
她不论党派把票投给了西冈先生。
Tā bù lùn dǎngpài bǎ piào tóu gěi le Xīgāng xiānsheng.
She voted for Mr Nishioka irrespective of party lines.
Character Family
儿 Radical Family — Characters sharing the legs radical
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