dī
low
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 氐 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dī
low; to lower, hang, bend, bow; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
Most common words with 低
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
low | ||
to reduce | ||
to be lower than | ||
low pitch | ||
to underestimate |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 45.9875% of movies
965th most common character in movies
592nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F4E |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“低，下也。从人、氐，氐亦聲。” |
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