棠 — Chinese character
棠
táng
crabapple tree; wild plum
- Pinyin
- táng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 尚 木
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 尚
- Japanese
- 棠 as a kanji
Common words with 棠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海棠 | hǎi táng | Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis) |
| 秋海棠 | qiū hǎi táng | begonia |
| 海棠花 | hǎi táng huā | Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis) |
| 棠梨 | táng lí | birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulaefolia) |
| 海棠形 | hǎi táng xíng | quatrefoil (usually elongated) |
棠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.
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