定
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to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 定
- Common rank
- #109
- Unicode
- U+5B9A
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Formation & memory
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How 定 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 疋 settling under a roof 宀
Components 宀 疋
How to remember it
settle on · Heisig RSH #390
mending + house
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 定
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不一定 | not necessarily; maybe | |
| 定海区 | Dinghai, a district of Zhoushan City 舟山市[Zhou1 shan1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 定安县 | Ding'an county, Hainan | |
| 安定区 | Anding, a district of Dingxi City 定西市[Ding4 xi1 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 不定 | indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious | |
| 定子 | (electricity) stator | |
| 定西市 | Dingxi, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3] | |
| 人定 | middle of the night; the dead of night | |
| 一定 | surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ... | |
| 平定县 | Pingding, a county in Yangquan City 陽泉市|阳泉市[Yang2 quan2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 法定人数 | quorum | |
| 安定化 | stabilization | |
| 定日县 | Tingri, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市[Ri4 ka1 ze2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 不动点定理 | fixed point theorem (math.) | |
| 定南县 | Dingnan, a county in Ganzhou City 贛州市|赣州市[Gan4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 定性 | to determine the nature (of sth); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); … | |
| 定海 | Dinghai district of Zhoushan city 舟山市[Zhou1 shan1 shi4], Zhejiang; Qing dynasty name of 舟山… | |
| 定金 | down payment; advance payment | |
| 安定门 | Andingmen neighborhood of Beijing | |
| 罗定市 | Luoding, a county-level city in Yunfu City 雲浮市|云浮市[Yun2 fu2 Shi4], Guangdong |
Sound family
These characters use 定 as their sound component — compare how they read.