铛 (dāng): clang; clank (sound of metal)

Meanings

1 clang; clank (sound of metal)
2 frying pan; griddle (when pronounced chēng)

Characters

铛

dāng

clang of metal; griddle

Examples

锣鼓铛铛地响起来了。

Luógǔ dāng dāng de xiǎngqǐ lái le.

The gongs and drums began to clang.

铛的一声，刀落在地上。

Dāng de yī shēng, dāo luò zài dìshàng.

With a clang, the knife fell to the ground.

Tips

usage

铛 has two readings: dāng refers to the clanging sound of metal, while chēng refers to a flat-bottomed frying pan or griddle used in cooking.

Components

radical

钅 jīn

metal (radical form of 金)

Left metal radical — the indexing radical in its 5-stroke side form. Anchors 铛 in the metalwork family with 钟 (bell), 锅 (pot), 锣 (gong). Both senses of 铛 — the metallic clang sound and the flat griddle pan — are pieces of metal cookware or noise.

phonetic

当 dāng

to be; appropriate

Right side 当 supplies the sound directly (dāng → dāng, exact match). For the cooking-pan reading chēng, the same phonetic shifts. Note: 当 by itself has no metal meaning here; it is doing pure phonetic duty, the way 同 works in 铜 (copper) and 各 works in 铬 (chromium).