Chinese Character Wiki
滴

dī

drip

Phonosemantic compound. 啇 represents the sound and 氵 represents the meaning.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

啇 sound component

啇  Sound component

dì

  

stalk, stem, root

Evolution

滴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

滴  

dī

drip; drop of water; a drop; to drip

Most common words with 滴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

滴

a drop

点滴

a drip

点点滴滴

bit by bit

一点一滴

bit by bit

水滴

drop

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.4048% of movies

1893rd most common character in movies

1896th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6EF4

Shuowen

“滴，水注也。从水，啻聲。”


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