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(tíng) - courtyard, hall (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

tíng

Traditional: 庭

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Translation

courtyard, hall (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the shelter radical 广 gives the meaning of a building or courtyard and 廷 (tíng) carries the sound.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
广 (shelter radical) + 廷 (tíng, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 庭

Examples

I have a happy family.

He was born into an ordinary family.

pàn

The court delivered its verdict.

He is very important in the family.

Family is very important to him.

庭 (tíng) is a bound morpheme meaning courtyard or hall; it forms 家庭 (jiātíng), family, and 法庭 (fǎtíng), court.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 庭.

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This word is part of lesson 106.