lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]

= + : Don Quixote (d) was going for a walk in front of the engine ((e)ng1) with his lantern (灯) when it suddenly catched fire (火). He used a lantern which utilizes hydrogen, and when he accidentally ripped his lantern open at a nail (丁) on the floor, the hydrogen caught fire.

灯 character breakdown

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).

Characters with 灯 as component

灯 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 灯

desk lamp / table lamp
fluorescent lamp / neon lamp
mercury-vapor lamp
Spring lantern riddles (guessing game at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节, at the end of Spring festival 春節|春节)
lamp / turn signal
Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights
Dengta, county-level city in Liaoyang 遼陽|辽阳[Liao2 yang2], Liaoning
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
LED strip light
LED strip light
Zhu Hongdeng, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion
Lamp in the Side Street, novel by Qing dynasty writer Li Lüyuan 李綠園|李绿园[Li3 Lü4 yuan2] / also written 岐路燈|岐路灯[Qi2 lu4 Deng1]

Sentences with 灯

灯 currently does not appear in any sentence.