叮
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to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently; to ask repeatedly; to stick to a point; (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 口 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 叮
- Common rank
- #2,667
- Unicode
- U+53EE
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 叮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半瓶水响叮当 | lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom); fig. empty vessels make the … | |
| 叮当声 | tinkle | |
| 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋 | lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom); fig. no smoke without a fire | |
| 叮当响 | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | |
| 响叮当 | to tinkle; to jingle; to clank | |
| 叮当 | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | |
| 叮叮当当 | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | |
| 叮问 | to question closely; to make a detailed inquiry; to probe; to ask repeatedly | |
| 千叮万嘱 | repeatedly urging; imploring over and over again | |
| 叮叮猫 | (dialect) dragonfly | |
| 叮咬 | (of a mosquito etc) to bite | |
| 叮铃 | jingle | |
| 叮叮 | (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound | |
| 叮嘱 | to warn repeatedly; to urge; to exhort again and again | |
| 叮咚 | (onom.) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound | |
| 叮咛 | to warn; to urge; to exhort; to give instructions carefully and insistently |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丁 — 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 | |
| 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 |