dí
enlighten
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 迪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to enlighten | ||
Audi | ||
Disney (company name, surname) | ||
Kennedy (name) | ||
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。” |
Sources
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