Chinese Character Wiki
敵

dí

enemy

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 啻 represents the sound.

Components
啻 sound component

啻  Sound component

chì

  

only

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

敵 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
敵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
敵 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
敵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

敌 (敵) 

dí

enemy, foe, rival; resist; enemy; to be a match for; to rival; to resist; to withstand

Most common words with 敵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

敌人

enemy

敌

enemy

无敌

unequalled

敌军

enemy troops

敌对

hostile

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤek

dek

dí

oppose; enemy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.7820% of movies

1143rd most common character in movies

523rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

敌

Unicode

U+6575

Shuowen

“敵，仇也。从攴，啻聲。”


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