鄧 meaning and stroke order
Surname
How to write 鄧, stroke by stroke
14 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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How 鄧 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Place.
阝 gives the meaning and 登 hints at the sound.
Radical: 阝 (place), shared by 160 characters on this site.
How to remember 鄧
The left part 登 (dēng, to climb) gives the sound, and the right-side 阝 marks a place or town. Picture a family that climbed up and settled in a town, and the town name became the surname 鄧 (dèng).
鄧 is used almost only as a family name, and it is fairly common. In mainland China it is written in the simplified form 邓. Example: 鄧先生是我的老師。(Dèng xiānsheng shì wǒ de lǎoshī.) Mr. Deng is my teacher.
Common mistake: Learners often read 鄧 with the first tone because of 登 (dēng), but the surname is fourth tone, dèng. Also, 阝 on the right side means a town, not the 阝 on the left that means a hill, so do not move it to the left.
Questions about 鄧
How many strokes are in 鄧?
鄧 is written with 14 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 鄧 mean?
鄧 (dèng) means surname.
How do you pronounce 鄧?
鄧 is pronounced dèng, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the radical of 鄧?
The radical of 鄧 is 阝, which carries the idea of "place". Dictionaries list 鄧 under this radical.
What is the simplified form of 鄧?
鄧 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 邓, used in mainland China and Singapore.
Who is the most famous person with the surname 鄧?
A well-known example is Deng Xiaoping, 鄧小平 (Dèng Xiǎopíng), the Chinese leader. Another is the singer Teresa Teng, 鄧麗君 (Dèng Lìjūn), whose name is romanized as Teng in Taiwan.
Why is 鄧 sometimes spelled Teng instead of Deng?
Deng is the Hanyu Pinyin spelling used in mainland China. Teng comes from the older Wade-Giles system, which is still common in Taiwan and in older English texts. Both spellings stand for the same sound, dèng.