唐 — Chinese character
唐
táng
the Tang dynasty; Chinese; empty, exaggerated; surname
- Pinyin
- táng
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 广 肀 口
- Formation
- ideographic — Children learning how to read 口 and write 肀 in school 广
- Japanese
- 唐 as a kanji
Common words with 唐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒唐 | huāng táng | beyond belief; preposterous |
| 唐人 | táng rén | (used in overseas Cantonese communities) Chinese person |
| 唐突 | táng tū | to be rude; to treat irreverently |
| 唐卡 | táng kǎ | thangka (Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting) |
| 唐璜 | táng huáng | a dandy; a fop |
| 颓唐 (頹唐) | tuí táng | dispirited; depressed |
| 唐楼 (唐樓) | táng lóu | tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China) |
| 唐棣 | táng dì | shadbush or shadberry (genus Amelanchier); painter and poet of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) |
| 唐扬 (唐揚) | táng yáng | Japanese-style fried food, usually chicken (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 唐揚げ "karaage") |
| 唐氏儿 (唐氏兒) | táng shì ér | child with Down syndrome |
| 唐氏症 | táng shì zhèng | (Tw) Down syndrome |
| 唐狗 | táng gǒu | mongrel |
English words written with 唐
唐 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 5
- Analects 8.20
- Analects 9.30
- Mencius 5A.6
- Mencius 5B.3
- Mencius 6B.6
- Zhuangzi Exercise of Faculties
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
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.