téng
verb #47,501

Meanings

  1. 1 (bound) to transcribe; to copy out a clean version

Examples

Bǎ cǎogǎo zài téng xiě yībiàn.
Copy the draft out cleanly one more time.

Tips

history
is not used alone in modern Chinese; it is bound in and — copying a draft out into a clean fair copy. It is the speech radical under a contracted top borrowed from , the phonetic that also feeds and .
register
Bound and somewhat formal; 抄写 is the everyday word for copying out text.

Components

radical
yán
speech; words
is the full speech radical in its bottom-position form. Copying out a document is putting words down again, so the speech element supplies the meaning.
phonetic
contracted phonetic from 朕
This 6-stroke top is a contracted, fused form of the phonetic (standalone 10 strokes), shared by and . It supplies the téng sound; the historical pieces have merged so it no longer reads as an independent character.

Stroke Order

téng