灯

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What 灯 means

lamp; light; lantern

Pictophonetic: semantic 火 (fire), phonetic 丁

Made of 火 + 丁

Words with 灯

• 灯光dēng guāng(stage) lighting; light
• 开灯kāi dēngto turn on the light
• 灯塔dēng tǎlighthouse
• 红灯hóng dēngred light
• 灯泡dēng pàolight bulb; see also 电灯泡; third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang)
• 绿灯lǜ dēnggreen light (traffic signal); (fig.) permission to proceed
• 熄灯xī dēngturn out the lights; lights out
• 灯笼dēng lónglantern
• 聚光灯jù guāng dēngspotlight
• 车灯chē dēngvehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc)
• 闪光灯shǎn guāng dēngflash bulb (photography)
• 幻灯片huàn dēng piànslide (photography, presentation software); filmstrip; transparency

灯 in a sentence

• 我把书放下来然后开灯。

  wǒ bǎ shū fàng xià lái rán hòu kāi dēng 。

  I put the book down and turned on the light.

• 我看见远处有灯光。

  wǒ kàn jiàn yuǎn chù yǒu dēng guāng 。

  I saw a light in the distance.

• 好像我成电灯泡了。我该走了。

  hǎo xiàng wǒ chéng diàn dēng pào le 。 wǒ gāi zǒu le 。

  Seems like I'm the third wheel here. I should go.

• 上床睡觉之前请关灯。

  shàng chuáng shuì jiào zhī qián qǐng guān dēng 。

  Please turn off the light before you go to bed.

• 绿灯时，拐弯车要让人。

  lǜ dēng shí ， guǎi wān chē yào ràng rén 。

  When the light is green, cars turning must yield to pedestrians.

Characters that sound like 灯

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