dǐng
top
Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound. Simplified form of 頂.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
dǐng
top, peak; carry on head; very; apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 41.7748% of movies
982nd most common character in movies
1000th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9876 |
Sources
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