对 · duì
correct, right; facing, opposed
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
correct, right; facing, opposed
- Mandarin
- duì
- Cantonese
- deoi3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 对 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5BF9
- Radical
- 寸 · 41
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 2
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 对
Character connections
Sentence context · 2 matches
他对什么都感好奇。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #401025 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #401022 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- duì
- kCantonese
- deoi3
- kDefinition
- correct, right; facing, opposed
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 41.2 29.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5BF9 U+5C0D
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5BF9
- kTGH
- 2013:341
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- duì 0273.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- duì 082.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- duì(5013)