淌 (tǎng): to flow

Meanings

1 to flow
2 to drip
3 to trickle

Characters

淌

tǎng

to flow; to drip

Examples

HSK 5

眼泪不停地往下淌。

Yǎnlèi bùtíng de wǎng xià tǎng.

Tears kept flowing down.

HSK 7-9

汗水顺着他的脸往下淌。

Hànshuǐ shùnzhe tā de liǎn wǎng xià tǎng.

Sweat trickled down his face.

Tips

usage

淌 describes a slow, steady flow of liquid - sweat, tears, or blood trickling. It's more literary than 流.

Components

radical

氵 shuǐ

water (radical form of 水)

Three-drops water radical on the left - the side-form of 水. Indexes 淌 in the liquid-motion family alongside 流 to flow, 滴 to drip, 滚 to roll, 涌 to gush. 淌 specifically names a calm overflowing stream - sweat down a brow, tears down a cheek, water spilling slowly.

phonetic

尚 shàng

still; esteem (here phonetic)

Right 尚 supplies the sound - shàng shifts to tǎng through the sh-/t- alternation common in this phonetic family. Same phonetic surfaces in 躺 tǎng to lie down, 倘 tǎng if, 趟 tàng trip, all sharing the tǎng/tàng reading you can lock to 尚.