堤
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dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 土 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 堤
- Common rank
- #2,886
- Unicode
- U+5824
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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Words with 堤
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千里之堤，毁于蚁穴 | see 千里之堤，潰於蟻穴|千里之堤，溃于蚁穴[qian1 li3 zhi1 di1 , kui4 yu2 yi3 xue2] | |
| 千里之堤，溃于蚁穴 | (lit.) an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom); (fig.) huge damage may … | |
| 防波堤 | breakwater; seawall; fig. defensive buffer zone | |
| 小孩堤防 | Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many t… | |
| 防潮堤 | tide embankment | |
| 海堤 | levee; dyke; seawall | |
| 路堤 | (road or railway) embankment | |
| 堤防 | dike; embankment; levee | |
| 那堤 | (Tw) (loanword) latte | |
| 决堤 | (of a watercourse) to breach its dike; (of dikes) to collapse | |
| 堤岸 | embankment; bank; levee | |
| 堤坝 | dam; dike |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 是 — compare how they read.