黛
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(literary) dark pigment traditionally used to paint the eyebrows
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 黑 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 黛
- Common rank
- #2,980
- Unicode
- U+9EDB
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Formation & memory
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Words with 黛
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烟花粉黛 | woman; prostitute; lovemaking; literary or theatrical form in Tang, Song and Yuan | |
| 林黛玉 | Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia… | |
| 史黛西 | Stacy (name) | |
| 马黛茶 | (loanword) maté (drink) | |
| 奥黛丽 | Audrey | |
| 青黛 | indigo (dye); Indigo naturalis extract (used in TCM) | |
| 黛安娜 | Diana (goddess in Roman mythology) | |
| 粉黛 | face powder and eyebrow liner; cosmetics; (fig.) beautiful woman | |
| 奥黛 | ao dai (traditional Vietnamese garment) | |
| 眉黛 | (literary) eyebrows painted with black pigment | |
| 奥黛莉 | Audrey; variant of 奧黛麗|奥黛丽[Ao4 dai4 li4] | |
| 黛绮莉 | (loanword) daiquiri |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 代 — compare how they read.