点
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to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 点
- Common rank
- #102
- Unicode
- U+70B9
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
spot · Heisig RSH #177
cooking fire + 占 tell fortunes
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 点
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一点儿 | erhua variant of 一點|一点[yi1 dian3] | |
| 地点 | place; site; location; venue; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 一点不 | not at all | |
| 有一点儿 | a bit; a little | |
| 中心点 | center; central point; focus | |
| 小不点 | tiny; very small; tiny thing; small child; baby | |
| 不动点 | fixed point (of a map) (math.) | |
| 有一点 | a little; somewhat | |
| 花点子 | trickery; scam | |
| 出生地点 | place of birth | |
| 点子 | spot; point; dot; speck; drop (of liquid); droplet; point (of argument); idea; crux; indic… | |
| 有点儿 | slightly; a little; somewhat | |
| 点大 | (of a child etc) small as a mite; minuscule | |
| 出点子 | to express an opinion; to offer advice | |
| 一点 | a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjecti… | |
| 三点水 | name of "water" radical 氵[shui3] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85) | |
| 一点一点 | little by little; bit by bit; gradually | |
| 点水 | to skim; lightly touching the water (as the dragonfly in the idiom 蜻蜓點水|蜻蜓点水); skin-deep | |
| 点头 | to nod | |
| 中点 | midpoint; half-way point |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 占 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 占 sound part | to divine; to observe; to versify | |
| 战 | war, fighting, battle | |
| 站 | stand, station; to halt, to stand; website; measure word for stands and stations | |
| 店 | shop, store; inn, hotel | |
| 贴 | to stick, to paste; attached; allowance, subsidy | |
| 钻 | diamond; to bore, to drill, to pierce | |
| 黏 | to stick to; glutinous, sticky; glue | |
| 沾 | to moisten, to soak, to wet; to touch | |
| 粘 | viscous, sticky, mucous, glutinous | |
| 毡 | felt; rug, carpet | |
| 砧 | anvil, flat stone | |
| 玷 | character flaw; a flaw in a gem | |
| 坫 | a stand on which to replace goblets after drinking | |
| 苫 | rush or straw matting | |
| 飐 | to sway in the wind | |
| 扂 | door latch | |
| 鲇 | sheatfish; Parasilurus asotus |