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Chinese

廳

/tʰiŋ⁵⁵/

hall; large room

Phono-semantic compound 形聲
HSK 5
radical 广
25 strokes
聽
听

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l̥ʰeːŋ): semantic 广 (“house”) + phonetic 聽 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋ, *l̥ʰeːŋs).

According to Jiyun, from 聽／听 (tīng), short for 聽事／听事.

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Lineage

meaningChinese广 “house built to depend on a cliff”
soundChinese聽 “to listen; to hear; to listen to (radio, etc.)”
- ideaChinese耳 “ear”
- soundChinese𡈼 “original form of 挺 (tǐng)”
- ideaChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
- meaningChinese㥁

Meanings

character

hall; large room
government department; office
living room and/or dining room

國語辭典 definitions

屋內的正堂。例：大廳、正廳
可容納多人的房間、場所。例：餐廳、理髮廳、音樂廳
政府機構之一。例：教育廳、農林廳、建設廳
清代府下所設與州、縣同級的地方行政單位。如清代在臺灣設有淡水廳、噶瑪蘭廳等。

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How 廳 was written 字形演變

Bronze
金文
Shang–Zhou
Regular
楷書
since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary: 廳