登
dēng HSK4

rise

登 dēng
ascend verb
to scale a height, climb, or mount

他成功登上了珠穆朗玛峰。

tā chéng​gōng dēng​shàng le Zhū​mù​lǎng​mǎ Fēng.

He successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest.

publish verb
to record, enter in a register, or publish in media

这篇文章登在头版头条。

zhè piān wén​zhāng dēng zài tóu​bǎn tóu​tiáo.

This article appeared as the front-page headline.

harvest punctuation
to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (archaic)

五谷丰登。

wǔ​gǔ fēng dēng.

A bumper harvest of grain crops.

put on verb
to put on shoes or trousers (dialectal usage)

他脚下登着一双黑皮鞋。

tā jiǎo​xià dēng zhe yī shuāng hēi pí​xié.

He was wearing a pair of black leather shoes.

step on verb
to press down with the foot or tread on something

快递员脚登三轮车，在狭窄的胡同里熟练地穿行。

kuài​dì​yuán jiǎo dēng sān​lún​chē, zài xiá​zhǎi de hú​tòng lǐ shú​liàn de chuān​xíng.

The delivery man pedaled his tricycle, skillfully weaving through the narrow alleys.

Frequency
Character
Written text
817th most common 220.6 per million
Movie subtitles
942nd most common 116.5 per million appears in 35% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
39.2 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
33.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+767B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)