抵
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to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 手 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 抵
- Common rank
- #1,593
- Unicode
- U+62B5
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 抵 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 meaning “hand” + 氐 sound ()
Components 扌 氐
How to remember it
resist · Heisig RSH #2788
fingers + calling card
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 抵
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不抵抗主义 | policy of nonresistance | |
| 抵用金 | store credit (credit to be spent at a specified retailer) | |
| 收支相抵 | to break even; balance between income and expenditure | |
| 大抵 | generally speaking; by and large; for the most part | |
| 以身抵债 | forced labor to repay a debt | |
| 安抵 | to arrive safely | |
| 相抵 | to balance up; to offset; to counterbalance | |
| 抵抗力 | resistance; immunity | |
| 抵足而卧 | see 抵足而眠[di3 zu2 er2 mian2] | |
| 抵用 | to exchange for (sth of equal value or utility); to use in lieu; to redeem (a coupon etc);… | |
| 抵制 | to resist; to boycott; to refuse (to cooperate); to reject; resistance; refusal | |
| 角抵 | wrestling; to wrestle | |
| 抵达 | to arrive; to reach (a destination) | |
| 抵华 | to arrive in China | |
| 抵足而眠 | lit. to live and sleep together (idiom); fig. a close friendship | |
| 抵用券 | coupon; voucher | |
| 抵罪 | to be punished for a crime | |
| 抵补 | to compensate for; to make good | |
| 抵消 | to counteract; to cancel out; to offset | |
| 抵住 | to resist; to press against; to brace |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 氐 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氐 sound part | the name of an ancient tribe | |
| 底 | bottom, underside; below, underneath | |
| 低 | low; to lower, to hang; to bend, to bow | |
| 邸 | official residence | |
| 鸱 | kite, horned owl; wine cups | |
| 坻 | islet; river delta, embankment; to stop | |
| 胝 | corn, callus | |
| 砥 | whetstone; to polish | |
| 柢 | root, base | |
| 牴 | to butt, to gore; to resist | |
| 诋 | to slander; to condem, to reproach | |
| 羝 | ram, he-goat | |
| 骶 | coccyx, sacrum | |
| 祗 | to revere, to respect, to look up to |