Chinese Character Wiki
底

dǐ, de

bottom

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 氐 represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

氐 sound,meaning component

氐  Sound Meaning component

dī, dǐ

  

bottom

Evolution

底 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
底 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

底  

dǐ

bottom, underneath, underside; background; bottom; base; end (of the month, year etc); remnants; (math.) radix

底  

de

(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)

Most common words with 底
Freq.
Word
Meaning

到底

finally

底

bottom

彻底

thorough

年底

year-end

底下

afterwards

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤijʔ

tejX

dǐ

bottom; stop, obstruct


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 86.9934% of movies

353rd most common character in movies

543rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5E95

Shuowen

“底，山居也。一曰下也。从广，氐聲。”


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