灯 (dēng): lamp, light
灯 (dēng) is a Chinese character meaning “lamp, light.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 火 (semantic) and 丁 (phonetic). It ranks #1114 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 灯 fire. Its radical form 火 (fire) appears in many related characters such as 火 (huǒ, fire), 烟 (yān, smoke), 烦 (fán, to feel vexed).
Definitions
- lamp, light
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 灯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 灯光noun | dēng guāng | (stage) lighting | 5 |
| 台灯noun | tái dēng | desk lamp | 5 |
| 灯笼noun | dēng lóng | lantern | 6 |
| 红绿灯noun | hóng lǜ dēng | traffic light | 3 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 红灯 | hóng dēng | red light |
| 灯塔 | dēng tǎ | lighthouse |
| 灯泡 | dēng pào | light bulb |
| 绿灯 | lǜ dēng | green light (traffic signal) |
| 熄灯 | xī dēng | turn out the lights |
| 车灯 | chē dēng | vehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc) |
| 电灯泡 | diàn dēng pào | light bulb |
| 幻灯片 | huàn dēng piàn | slide (photography, presentation software) |
| 尾灯 | wěi dēng | tail light (on vehicle) |
| 路灯 | lù dēng | street lamp |
| 电灯 | diàn dēng | electric light |
| 吊灯 | diào dēng | hanging lamp |
| 灯火 | dēng huǒ | lights |
| 灯柱 | dēng zhù | lamppost |
| 灯笼裤 | dēng lóng kù | bloomers |
灯 appears in 100 compound words: 35 as the first character, 58 as the last, and 7 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 灯 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Example Sentences
办公室要求下班时关闭所有电灯，以节约能源。
Bàngōngshì yāoqiú xiàbān shí guānbì suǒyǒu diàndēng, yǐ jiéyuē néngyuán.
The office requires all lights to be turned off after work to save energy.
全国唯一官帽土地公!花坛白沙坑“百年迎灯排”3/1 登场
quán guó wéi yī guān mào tǔ dì gōng ! huā tán bái shā kēng bǎi nián yíng dēng pái 3 1 dēng chǎng
The only official hat land public in the country! The "Centennial Lantern Row" in the flower bed white sandpit appeared on 3/1
嘉义灯会亮点!10公尺高“玛利欧主灯”联名任天...
jiā yì dēng huì liàng diǎn ! 1 0 gōng chǐ gāo 玛 lì ōu zhǔ dēng lián míng rèn tiān . . .
Highlights of the Chiayi Lantern Festival! The 10-meter-high "Mario Main Light" is co-branded Ren Tian...
挑灯看剑丨用AI赋能指挥信息系统
tiāo dēng kàn jiàn 丨 yòng A I fù néng zhǐ huī xìn xī xì tǒng
Lighting the lamp and looking at the sword丨Using AI to empower the command information system
大年初三车间灯就亮了,航天老厂通过自研AI平台,稳..
dà nián chū sān chē jiān dēng jiù liàng le , háng tiān lǎo hǎn tōng guò zì yán A I píng tái , wěn . .
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the workshop lights were turned on, and the old aerospace factory was steadily developed through the self-developed AI platform.
守护万家灯火,90后山东小伙的萧山变电站除夕夜
shǒu hù mò jiā dēng huǒ , hòu shān dōng xiǎo huǒ de xiāo shān biàn diàn zhàn chú xī yè
Guarding the lights, 90 years after the Shandong boy's Xiaoshan substation New Year's Eve
您介不介意我把灯关了？
Nín jiè bù jièyì wǒ bǎ dēng guānle?
Do you mind if I turn off the light?
我想把阅读灯关了，行吗？
Wǒ xiǎng bǎ yuèdú dēng guān le, xíng ma?
I'd like to turn off the reading lamp, is that OK?
天开始变黑了。你可以帮忙去开个灯吗？
Tiān kāishǐ biàn hēi le. Nǐ kěyǐ bāngmáng qù kāi ge dēng ma?
It's getting dark. Could you put the light on for me?
你为什么把灯打开了呀？
Nǐ wèishénme bǎ dēng dǎkāi le ya?
Why did you turn on the light?
Character Family
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