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滴
Mandarin · pinyin dī
Meanings
- to drip
- to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc)
- (bound form) a drop (of liquid)
- classifier for drops of liquid
Characters in this entry
- 滴
- dī · drip; drop of water
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Mandarin tones
1 · di1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dik1 · dik6
Cantonese word readings for 滴. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to drip; to dribble
- to drip something into
- drop of liquid
- Classifier for drops of liquid. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- (Hakka, Southern Min) a little
- (Mainland China Hokkien) trace left by a drop of liquid
verb · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese, of ball) to bounce against a surface
character · Etymology 3
- (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 的².
- (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 地².
- (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 得 (“Used after a verb or an adjective and before a complement”).
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