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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
surname Ding
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
used in 丁丁
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
stir-fried diced pork
T-junction
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
gong bao chicken / spicy diced chicken
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Nottingham (city in England)
(chemistry) butyl group
Nottinghamshire (English county)
Gulf of Aden
hepatitis D
butanol / butyl alcohol C4H9OH
Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
Latin (language)
the alphabet / latin letters
Latin alphabet
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants
(loanword) nicotine
dingo (Canis dingo)
nitrile glove
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
Martin (name)
chicken with cashew nuts
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
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
a tiny bit
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
orange (fruit) (Tw)
gardener
Latin (language)
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
adult male
(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
Latin square (math. puzzle)
Latin America
Aden
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
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
go-kart
azetidine (chemistry) (loanword)
romanization
(idiom) illiterate
chopped fried noodles
hammer pick
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
William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University
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
Aston Martin
T-bone steak
(loanword) martini
a type of plain-woven woolen fabric that is thin, stiff and smooth
Latin dance
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)
lilac
St Augustine / Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher / Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc) / (software) patch
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
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
Austin or Austen (name) / Austin, Texas / also written 奧斯汀|奥斯汀
Kenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恆春半島|恒春半岛, Pingtung county, south Taiwan
Oudin coil / Oudin resonator
sardine (loanword)
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
chitin
(loanword) satin (textile)
Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定
thong (underwear)
tetrose (CH2O)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
diced chicken meat
butyrolactone

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