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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dī | di1
English translation
dike
Taiwan pr. [tí]
variant of [dī]

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

earth

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土是

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

shì

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and shì represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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他们 tā men zài zhè 地方 dìfāng 整个 zhěnggè 堤岸 dī àn Quán kāi le .

They have dug away the whole bank at this point.

河水 hé shuǐ 泛滥 fànlàn , chōng le 堤岸 dī àn .

The river floods caved in the bank.

许多 xǔduō 小河 xiǎo hé de Shuǐ 已经 yǐjīng 漫过堤岸 dī àn 造成 zàochéng 一些 yī xiē 道路 dào lù 不能 bù néng 通行 tōng xíng

Many streams have flooded their banks, making some roads impassable.

埃文 Aī wén 决堤 jué dī de 时候 shíhou yǒu 5 duì 夫妇 fūfù 被困 zài le 他们 tā men de Fáng 车里

Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.

驶出 shǐ chū nèi 防波堤 fáng bō dī 我们 wǒmen jiù 扬起 yáng qǐ le 所有 suǒyǒu de 船帆 chuán fān

Once outside the inner breakwater, we began to unfurl all the sails.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
dike
堤坝 dībà dam堤壩
堤防 dī fáng dike堤防 dī fáng
堤岸 dī àn bank堤岸 dī àn
决堤 jué dī (of dikes) to collapse決隄
防波堤 fáng bō dī breakwater防波堤 fáng bō dī
海堤 hǎi dī levee海堤 hǎi dī

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Decomposition

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