挺 · tǐng
to stand upright, straighten; rigid
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to stand upright, straighten; rigid
- Mandarin
- tǐng
- Cantonese
- ting5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 挺 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
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
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 정
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+633A
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 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 挺
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 廷 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 廷聲
Line 5679 · ⿰扌廷 · 廷聲 · source reference 4411730
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
Sentence context · 1 matches
我挺喜欢那个歌手的。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #395055 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #395054 · Original contributor: CK · 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
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- deng · 特丁 反切 · #934
- Middle Chinese
- dengX · 徒鼎 反切 · #1902
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7391 · deng = 梗開四平青定 · dengX = 梗開四上青定
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tǐng
- kCantonese
- ting5
- kDefinition
- to stand upright, straighten; rigid
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 64.7
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:1382
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tǐng,tíng 31869.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tǐng 1147.110
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tǐng 368.160
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- tǐng(239)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tǐng粵ting5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 特丁 徒鼎
- Kangxi positions
- 0432.040
- Guangyun positions
- 194.29 319.48
- GSR references
- 0835i
- Cangjie
- QNKG
- Four-corner
- 5204.1