灯 dēng▶ đèn

Stroke order

灯 is written in 6 strokes.

• 灯

Senses

1. lamp
2. light
3. lantern

Example sentences

• 房间里有一盏灯。Fángjiān lǐ yǒu yì zhǎn dēng.There is a lamp in the room.
• 请把灯打开。Qǐng bǎ dēng dǎkāi.Please turn on the lamp.

Related words

• 灯笼đèn lồng

灯 is pronounced dēng and means “đèn”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 灯 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.