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登陆 (dēng lù) — to land; to come ashore; to make landfall (of typhoon, etc.); (often as a mistaken variant of 登录) to log in

Definition

Literally 'to land / come ashore' — used for people disembarking (soldiers on a coast) and for typhoons making landfall. Often misused for 登录 ('log in'); use 登录 for accounts and websites.

verb
to landto come ashoreto make landfall (of typhoon, etc.)(often as a mistaken variant of 登录) to log in
Easily confused

Examples

  • 登陆。
    Shì bīng men chéng gōng dēng lù le hǎi àn.
    The soldiers successfully landed on the coast.
  • 登陆。
    Tái fēng yù jì míng tiān dēng lù dōng nán yán hǎi.
    The typhoon is expected to make landfall on the southeast coast tomorrow.
  • 登陆。
    Qǐng xiān dēng lù nǐ de yóu xiāng.
    Please log in to your email first.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

登dēngclimb onto
陆lùland

"登" (climb onto) and "陆" (land) combine to mean coming ashore.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 癶癶bōleft and right feet
  • 豆豆dòupictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone

登 pairs 癶, left and right feet, with 豆, a raised object or stepping stone; its older form also showed two hands at the bottom, which later dropped.

Open 登 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 陸; 陆 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阝Written in full as阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
坴
坴lù陸lù
Same sound today

The traditional form 陸 uses 阝 (written in full as 阜) for the meaning and 坴 for the sound; the simplified 陆 is a later shorthand.

Open 陆 →
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