HSK 6 · Verbs

蹬 dēng “to push down with the foot” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 蹬 means

  1. to push down with the foot
  2. to pedal
  3. to step on
  4. to tread on
  5. to put on
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to wear (shoes, trousers etc)

How to say 蹬

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale蹬dēng1st tone, high and level

蹬 in a sentence

  1. 他使劲蹬自行车上坡。

    Tā shǐjìn dēng zìxíngchē shàngpō.

    He pedalled hard to get the bike up the hill.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 孩子睡觉的时候老蹬被子。

    Háizi shuìjiào de shíhou lǎo dēng bèizi.

    The child keeps kicking off the covers in their sleep.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 蹬 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 蹬 (dēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
蹬dēngto step on; to tread on
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 登to rise · dēngSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 登 (dēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with dēng.

How to write 蹬

蹬 19 strokes

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蹬 (dēng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 蹬 (dēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 蹬

More words: Common Verbs

打量dǎliang · to size up捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble搭配dāpèi · to match瞪dèng · to stare等候děnghòu · to wait得罪dézuì · to offend颠倒diāndǎo · to turn upside down奠定diàndìng · to establish

FAQs

蹬 (dēng) means “to push down with the foot” or “to pedal”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dēng: dēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 蹬 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type deng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 蹬 from the suggestions. Typing deng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
蹬 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.