淀
Tap the pinyin to hear it
(bound form) shallow lake (usu. in place names)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淀
- Common rank
- #2,542
- Unicode
- U+6DC0
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 淀
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海淀图书城 | Haidian Book City, Beijing bookstore | |
| 动物淀粉 | glycogen | |
| 海淀区 | Haidian, a district of Beijing | |
| 玉米淀粉 | corn starch | |
| 白洋淀 | Baiyang Lake in Hebei | |
| 淀山湖 | Dianshan Lake in Shanghai | |
| 淀积物 | (geology) illuvial material | |
| 沉淀物 | precipitate; sediment | |
| 海淀 | see 海淀區|海淀区[Hai3 dian4 Qu1] | |
| 淀粉肠 | starchy sausage (low-cost sausage made with a high proportion of starch and little meat) | |
| 木薯淀粉 | tapioca | |
| 淀粉 | starch; amylum (C6H10O5)n | |
| 淀积 | (geology) to illuviate | |
| 积淀 | deposits accumulated over long periods; fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom | |
| 淀粉酶 | amylase | |
| 沉淀 | variant of 沉澱|沉淀[chen2 dian4] | |
| 沉淀 | (chemistry) to settle; to precipitate; (chemistry) sediment; precipitate; (fig.) (of emoti… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 定 — compare how they read.