淌 (tǎng): to drip, to trickle, to shed (tears)
淌 (tǎng) is a Chinese character meaning “to drip.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 尚 (phonetic). It ranks #2743 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 淌 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- to drip
- to trickle
- to shed (tears)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流淌verb | liú tǎng | to flow |
| 淌口水 | tǎng kǒu shuǐ | to let saliva dribble from the mouth |
| 淌下 | tǎng xià | to let drip |
| 淌眼泪 | tǎng yǎn lèi | to shed tears |
| 淌泪verb | tǎng lèi | to shed a tear |
淌 appears in 5 compound words: 80 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 0 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 淌 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
孩子们喜欢在清澈的淌边玩耍,捉小鱼小虾。
hái zǐ men xǐ huān zài qīng 澈 de tǎng biān wán shuǎ , zhuō xiǎo yú xiǎo xiā .
Children love to play along the clear stream, catching little fish and shrimp.
《宝塔特快》流淌出民谣叙事,像一个民工在自述往事,到底在讲一个怎样的故事?
bǎo tǎ tè kuài liú tǎng chū mín yáo xù shì , xiàng yī gè mín gōng zài zì shù wǎng shì , dào de zài jiǎng yī gè zěn yàng de gù shì ?
"Pagoda Express" is imbued with the narrative style of folk songs, as if a migrant worker were recounting his past—but what kind of story is it really telling?
这种创新精神一直在牛街庄滇戏博物馆流淌。
zhè zhǒng chuàng xīn jīng shén yī zhí zài niú jiē zhuāng Diān xì bó wù guǎn liú tǎng .
This spirit of innovation has always been a hallmark of the Niujiezhuang Yunnan Opera Museum.
对她而言,《青枝》的写作是一种无意识的“流淌”。
duì tā ér yán , qīng zhī de xiě zuò shì yī zhǒng wú yì shí de liú tǎng .
For her, writing *Green Branches* was a kind of unconscious “flow.”
...市城关镇高沟村:前院锣鼓铿锵 后院墨韵流淌
. . . shì chéng guān zhèn gāo gōu cūn : qián yuàn 锣 gǔ 铿 锵 hòu yuàn mò yùn liú tǎng
...Gaogou Village, Chengguan Town: The sound of gongs and drums echoes from the front yard, while the aroma of ink wafts from the back yard
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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