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帝

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(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity

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HSK 3.0
Level 6
Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
9
Radical
巾 +6
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
帝
Common rank
#817
Unicode
U+5E1D

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Formation & memory

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How 帝 is formed

Pictograph (象形字)

An altar on which a sacrifice is being made

Components 立 巾

How to remember it

sovereign · Heisig RSH #449

立 standing up + apron

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 帝

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
东罗马帝国 dōng Luó mǎ Dì guó Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453)
帝国理工学院 Dì guó Lǐ gōng Xué yuàn Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
神圣罗马帝国 Shén shèng Luó mǎ Dì guó the Holy Roman Empire (history)
罗马帝国 Luó mǎ Dì guó Roman Empire
帝国主义 dì guó zhǔ yì imperialism
大清帝国 Dà Qīng Dì guó Great Qing Empire (1644-1911)
哈里发帝国 Hā lǐ fā Dì guó Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德[Mu4 han3 mo4…
亚历山大大帝 Yà lì shān dà Dà dì Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
黄帝八十一难经 Huáng dì Bā shí yī Nàn jīng The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
东京帝国大学 Dōng jīng Dì guó Dà xué Tokyo Imperial University (renamed Tokyo University after 1945)
三官大帝 sān guān dà dì the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)
白帝城 Bái dì chéng Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction
黄帝内经 Huáng dì Nèi jīng The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC
大英帝国 Dà yīng Dì guó British Empire
道光帝 Dào guāng dì Daoguang Emperor
黑客帝国 Hēi kè Dì guó The Matrix (1999 movie)
黄帝族 Huáng dì zú tribes under the Yellow Emperor
查理大帝 Chá lǐ Dà dì Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800
天高皇帝远 tiān gāo huáng dì yuǎn lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom); fig. remote places are beyond th…
第三帝国 Dì sān Dì guó Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)

Sound family

These characters use 帝 as their sound component — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
帝 sound part dì supreme ruler, emperor; god
蒂 dì root cause; the stem of a fruit; the peduncle of a flower
蹄 tí hoof; pig's trotter
啼 tí to weep, to whimper; to howl; to crow
缔 dì to tie, to join; knot, connection
谛 dì careful, attentive; to examine; the truth
啻 chì only, merely, just; to stop at
碲 dì tellurium