黨 (dǎng) — a faction, party; verb — to band together

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黨 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)

黨＝黑＋尚

ㄉㄤˇ · dǎng

noun — a faction, party; verb — to band together

字源 FORM — what the parts do

黑義black, dim — soot on the skina figure marked at the face, fire-smoke below

尚聲shàng — gives the sound八 over 向 — adding onto, esteeming

{sh→d}ITshàng → dǎng — the initial worn off the {sh} family; tone shifts too

Black (黑) is the sense — the original word meant dim, not-fresh in colour. 尚 shàng gives the sound, the initial worn far down to dǎng. From "the dim crowd" the word turned to a band of people seen together: 朋黨, then the local ward 鄉黨, then the political party 政黨.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一群人擠成黑壓壓（黑）的一片——這就是一黨。

A crowd packs together into one dark mass (黑) — that is a faction.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)不鮮、色暗— dim, not fresh in colour

→朋黨、鄉黨— a faction; one's ward, peers

⇒政黨、黨員— political party常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension