Lamp in Chinese (Mandarin): 灯 (dēng)
灯
dēng
lamp
- Simplified
- 灯
- Traditional
- 燈
- Pinyin
- dēng
- Typed as
- deng
Use it in a sentence
这个灯很亮。
這個燈很亮。
The lamp is very bright.
The characters in 灯
灯 / 燈
Lamp, light. 火 (fire) is on the left, from the days of oil lamps.
6 strokes
First tone. Turning on the light is 开灯 (kāi dēng), and turning it off is 关灯 (guān dēng).
More examples with 灯
请开灯。
請開燈。
Qǐng kāi dēng.
Please turn on the light.
睡觉前我关灯。
睡覺前我關燈。
Shuìjiào qián wǒ guān dēng.
I turn off the light before bed.
How to write 灯 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
灯 6 strokes
In Traditional characters:
燈 16 strokes
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