丁
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male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 一 +1
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 丁
- Common rank
- #485
- Unicode
- U+4E01
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
fourth · Heisig RSH #90
— as a component also called: nail, spike, thumbtack
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 丁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉丁文字 | the alphabet; latin letters | |
| 拉丁化 | romanization | |
| 拉丁文 | Latin (language) | |
| 一丁点 | a tiny bit | |
| 拉丁语 | Latin (language) | |
| 阿拉丁 | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
| 马丁尼 | (loanword) martini | |
| 马丁·路德 | Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation | |
| 马丁·路德·金 | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist | |
| 卡丁车 | go-kart | |
| 人丁 | number of people in a family; population; (old) adult males; male servants | |
| 拉丁字母 | Latin alphabet | |
| 丁青县 | Dêngqên, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市[Chang1 du1 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 马丁 | Martin (name) | |
| 家丁 | (old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc | |
| 拉丁 | Latin; (in former times) to press-gang; to kidnap and force people into service | |
| 白丁 | (literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an offici… | |
| 丁克 | Dual Income, No Kids (DINK) (loanword) | |
| 一丁不识 | (idiom) illiterate | |
| 不识一丁 | total illiterate; unable to read the simplest characters |
Sound family
These characters use 丁 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丁 sound part | male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem | |
| 打 | to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike | |
| 宁 | calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer | |
| 灯 | lamp, lantern, light | |
| 顶 | top, summit, peak; to carry on the head | |
| 厅 | hall, central room | |
| 订 | to make an order; to draw up an agreement | |
| 汀 | bank, sandbar; beach, shore | |
| 叮 | to persistently exhort or urge; sting (as of an insect) | |
| 盯 | to rivet one's gaze upon; to keep eyes on | |
| 町 | a raised path between fields | |
| 仃 | lonely, solitary | |
| 酊 | drunk, intoxicated | |
| 疔 | boil, carbuncle, ulcer | |
| 玎 | jingling, tinkling | |
| 耵 | earwax |