碟

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dish; plate

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A flat 枼 stone 石

Components 石枼

saucer · Heisig RSH #1658

石 stone + family tree

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
看人下菜碟儿	kàn rén xià cài dié r	(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)…
小菜一碟	xiǎo cài yī dié	a small appetizer; a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
音乐光碟	yīn yuè guāng dié	music CD
光磁碟机	guāng cí dié jī	magneto-optical drive; floptical drive
硬式磁碟机	yìng shì cí dié jī	hard disk; hard drive
打碟师	dǎ dié shī	DJ (disc jockey)
影碟机	yǐng dié jī	DVD player
磁碟机	cí dié jī	disk drive (computing); drive (computing)
光磁碟	guāng cí dié	magneto-optical disk; floptical disk
随身碟	suí shēn dié	(Tw) USB flash drive; thumb drive
碟子	dié zi	saucer; small dish; CL:盤\|盘[pan2]
光碟	guāng dié	optical disc; compact disc; CD; CD-ROM; CL:片[pian4],張\|张[zhang1]
软磁碟	ruǎn cí dié	floppy disk
碟片	dié piàn	disc; CL:張\|张[zhang1]
飞碟	fēi dié	flying saucer; frisbee
翻版碟	fān bǎn dié	copy of DVD; pirate DVD
影碟	yǐng dié	DVD; CL:片[pian4],張\|张[zhang1]
软碟	ruǎn dié	floppy disk
歌碟	gē dié	disc; record (music)
碟仙	dié xiān	form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers…