dǎng

counsel

Components

Meaning component
yán speech

speech

Sound component
dǎng political party

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

counsel Traditional

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtaːŋʔ

說文解字

直言也。从言黨聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica