登

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

ascend

HSK 4 N2

Human →Actions →Movement

dēng

トウ、ト、ドウ、ショウ、チョウ

のぼ.る、あ.がる

등

Depicts two feet (癶) rising onto a stone platform (豆) to board into a vehicle.

Components

癶 legs+ 豆 beans =

登 ascend

癶 Iconic component

bō legs

Depicts two feet.

豆 Iconic component

dòu beans

variant of 豆[dòu]

Depicts a stone platform.

Notes

Similar Characters

發 send out (trad)豇 a small kidney bean 豉 fermented beans 豌 peas 头 top (simp)尌 standing 痘 smallpox 短 short 豎 perpendicular (trad)逗 tease 頭 head (trad/jp)

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

登

Regular

Modern

Chinese

登 [dēng]

to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

登とさき

Tosaki surname

登のぼり

Nobori surname

登のぼる

Noboru surname

登みのる

Minoru given name

CHINESE WORDS (180)

登记 [dēngjì] #3,034

to register (one's name)

登记 [dēngjì] #3,034

to register (one's name)

登场 [dēngchǎng] #5,053

to go on stage

登场 [dēngchǎng] #5,053

登上 [dēngshàng] #16,498

to climb over

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JAPANESE WORDS (169)

⭐ 登場 [とうじょう] #2,364

entrance (on the stage)

attendance (at school)

階段を上る [かいだんをのぼる] #8,811

to go up the stairs

⭐ 登場人物 [とうじょうじんぶつ] #10,326

character (in a play, novel, film, etc.)

よじ登る [よじのぼる] #13,058

to climb

駆け登る [かけのぼる] #18,033

to run (up hill, stairs, etc.)

上り詰める [のぼりつめる] #18,673

to go to the top

⭐ 上り [のぼり] #19,461

ascent

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KOREAN WORDS (17)

등록 #34,198

registration

등산 #44,914

hike; mountain climbing

alpinist; mountaineer

등산객

hiker; mountaineer

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