釘
简 钉 · 繁 釘Meanings · deng1
- (verb) 1. to sew
- stitch (a button on a shirt) to drive (a nail)
Meanings · deng1
- nail
- to follow closely
- to keep at sb (to do sth)
- variant of 盯
- spike
- to pursue closely
- to urge
- to press
- to sew on
- to drive in (a nail)
- to die
- to be investigated by the police
- the interest on money borrowed from a loanshark
- to mark someone (in a ball game)
Meanings · ding1
- nail
- to follow closely
- to keep at sb (to do sth)
- variant of 盯
- spike
- to pursue closely
- to urge
- to press
- to sew on
- to drive in (a nail)
- to die
- to be investigated by the police
- the interest on money borrowed from a loanshark
- to mark someone (in a ball game)
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 釘 has the reading deng1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ding1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 釘 deng1 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 釘 dīng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinnail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth); variant of 盯 dīng
- 釘 dìng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points; to nail; to pin; to staple; to sew on
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ding1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 12 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
deng1 · ding1
Cantonese word readings for 釘. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete, rare) gold slab
- nail (spike-shaped fastener)
- body piercing
- to monitor; to urge
- (Sichuanese) to have indigestion
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 盯 (dīng, “to keep eyes on; to stare at”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 叮 (dīng, “to sting; to bite”)
- (literary) lamp
character · Etymology 1
- to nail; to staple
- to sew on
- (Cantonese, slang) to die
- (obsolete, rare) gold
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