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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
surname Ding
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
used in 丁丁
Latin (language)
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
T-junction
Aden
a tiny bit
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous
to burn down (idiom)
pudding (loanword)
butyl glycol
lilac (Syringa spp) / clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
Ding Lei (1971-), founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易
butadiene C4H6 / biethylene
butane
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
go-kart
(chemistry) butyl group
hepatitis D
butanol / butyl alcohol C4H9OH
Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy
Gulf of Aden
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
Nottingham (city in England)
the alphabet / latin letters
Latin alphabet
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
chitin
number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants
(loanword) nicotine
gardener
dingo (Canis dingo)
nitrile glove
Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination (abbr. for 墾丁國家公園|垦丁国家公园)
isobutane
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
gong bao chicken / spicy diced chicken
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Terengganu, northeast state of mainland Malaysia
T-shaped
Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
diced chicken meat
nitrile rubber
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
orange (fruit) (Tw)
Latin (language)
adult male
(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
Austin or Austen (name) / Austin, Texas / also written 奧斯汀|奥斯汀
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc) / (software) patch
total illiterate / unable to read the simplest characters
Latin America
Tintin, cartoon character
(neologism) (slang) penis (丁丁 resembles "JJ", which is short for 雞雞|鸡鸡)
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
butyrolactone
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
azetidine (chemistry) (loanword)
romanization
(idiom) illiterate
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037
forty-fourth year D8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1967 or 2027
Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
(loanword) gelatin
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
T-bone steak
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
thong (underwear)
Latin dance
St Augustine / Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher / Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany
lilac
Martin (name)
chopped fried noodles
T-square / set square (carpenter's tool)
T-step (basic dance position, with the feet forming a T shape)
thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
Aston Martin
sardine (loanword)
Blu-tack (brand)
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
Huntington's disease
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
(loanword) satin (textile)
tetrose (CH2O)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms
stir-fried diced pork
chitin
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
(old) member of local militia

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