灯 — Chinese character
灯
dēng
lamp, lantern, light
- Pinyin
- dēng
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 火 丁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 丁
- Traditional
- 燈
- Japanese
- 灯 as a kanji
Common words with 灯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灯光 (燈光) | dēng guāng | (stage) lighting; light |
| 灯笼 (燈籠) | dēng lóng | lantern |
| 灯塔 (燈塔) | dēng tǎ | lighthouse; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 红灯 (紅燈) | hóng dēng | red light |
| 路灯 (路燈) | lù dēng | street lamp; street light |
| 灯泡 (燈泡) | dēng pào | light bulb; see also 电灯泡 (diàn dēng pào) |
| 熄灯 (熄燈) | xī dēng | turn out the lights; lights out |
| 电灯 (電燈) | diàn dēng | electric light; 盏 (zhǎn) |
| 点灯 (點燈) | diǎn dēng | to light a lamp |
| 灯火 (燈火) | dēng huǒ | lights |
| 绿灯 (綠燈) | lǜ dēng | green light (traffic signal); (fig.) permission to proceed |
| 闪光灯 (閃光燈) | shǎn guāng dēng | flash bulb (photography) |
English words written with 灯
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.