Chinese Character Wiki

疊

dié

pile

Clothes 畾 stacked on top of a drawer 冝

Components
畾 meaning component

畾  Meaning component

léi

  

fields divided by dikes

冝 meaning component

冝  Meaning component

yí

  

suitable

Evolution

疊 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
疊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
疊 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
疊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叠 (疊) 

dié

repeat, duplicate; repetitious; to fold; to fold over in layers; to furl; to layer; to pile up; to repeat; to duplicate

Most common words with 疊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

叠

to fold

折叠

to fold

重叠

to overlap

叠罗汉

human pyramid

层叠

tiered

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤ[i]p

dep

dié

double, accumulate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.4530% of movies

2563rd most common character in movies

2271st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

叠

Unicode

U+758A

Shuowen

“曡，揚雄說以為，古理官决罪，三日得其宜，乃行之。从晶，从宜。亡新以為，曡从三日太盛，改為三田。”


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