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Tang dynasty 唐
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Used in these characters:
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糖
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| sugar, sweets, candy
táng
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米
唐
广
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Left: rice 米, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand  with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle 丨 in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.
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塘
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
táng
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土
唐
广
口
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Left: earth 土, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang)
If the earth is compacted by hand and pestle 丨 during the construction of the building so that a surrounding frame 口 is created, this is the dyke for an pond.
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唐
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty
táng
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唐
广
口
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Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle 丨, mortar 口
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???
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