enlighten

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

由 sound component

  Sound component

yóu

  

cause

Evolution

迪 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
迪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
迪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
迪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

enlighten, advance; progress; to enlighten

Most common words with 迪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to enlighten

奥迪

Audi

迪斯尼

Disney (company name, surname)

肯尼迪

Kennedy (name)

迪拜

Dubai

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.0223% of movies

603rd most common character in movies

1440th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+8FEA

Shuowen

“迪,道也。从辵,由聲。”


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