dèng

lamp

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
dēng rise

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

lamp Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttongk-tˤəŋritual vessel; lamp
Zhengzhangtɯːŋ
tɯːŋs
Unicodedəng

說文解字

錠也。从金登聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica