订

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to agree; to conclude; to draw up; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to order

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 丁 sound ( dīng )

Components 讠丁

place an order · Heisig RSH #1653

words + nail

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
订书机	dìng shū jī	stapler; CL:臺\|台[tai2]
合订本	hé dìng běn	bound volume; one-volume edition
下订单	xià dìng dān	to place an order (commerce)
订单号	dìng dān hào	order number
中俄改订条约	Zhōng É Gǎi dìng Tiáo yuē	Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China…
修订本	xiū dìng běn	revised edition (of a book)
订书针	dìng shū zhēn	staple
订金	dìng jīn	an initial payment; earnest money; deposit
订出	dìng chū	to lay down (a rule, a plan of action); to draw up; booked out (i.e. already fully booked)
修订历史	xiū dìng lì shǐ	revision history (of a document, web page etc)
明订	míng dìng	see 訂明\|订明[ding4 ming2]
订明	dìng míng	to stipulate; to state expressly
订定	dìng dìng	to set; to designate; to stipulate; to provide; to draw up; to formulate (rules etc); stip…
制订	zhì dìng	to work out; to formulate
订制	dìng zhì	custom-made; made-to-order; to have sth custom made
订正	dìng zhèng	to make a correction
订单	dìng dān	(purchase) order
增订本	zēng dìng běn	revised and enlarged edition
改订伊犁条约	Gǎi dìng Yī lí Tiáo yuē	Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qi…
订立	dìng lì	to conclude (treaty, contract, agreement etc); to set up (a rule etc)

Characters sharing the sound component 丁 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
丁 sound part	dīng	male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem
打	dǎ	to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
宁	níng	calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer
灯	dēng	lamp, lantern, light
顶	dǐng	top, summit, peak; to carry on the head
厅	tīng	hall, central room
汀	tīng	bank, sandbar; beach, shore
叮	dīng	to persistently exhort or urge; sting (as of an insect)
盯	dīng	to rivet one's gaze upon; to keep eyes on
町	tǐng	a raised path between fields
仃	dīng	lonely, solitary
酊	dīng	drunk, intoxicated
疔	dīng	boil, carbuncle, ulcer
玎	dīng	jingling, tinkling
耵	dīng	earwax