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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
(loanword) satin (textile)
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
variant of 伶仃
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc) / (software) patch
Aston Martin
pudding (loanword)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)
Aden
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
(loanword) nicotine
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
diced chicken meat
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
gardener
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica)
Austin or Austen (name) / Austin, Texas / also written 奧斯汀|奥斯汀
to add a son to the family
(old) member of local militia
adult male
suddenly / by surprise
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
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
Manchurian foot soldier
Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty
number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
diced meat
(of a male) to come of age / an adult male
Martin (name)
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)
orange (fruit) (Tw)
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Sint Maarten, island country in the Caribbean
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
(loanword) gelatin
Borodin (name) / Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Russian chemist and composer
a type of plain-woven woolen fabric that is thin, stiff and smooth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
surname Ding
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
used in 丁丁
total illiterate / unable to read the simplest characters
to burn down (idiom)
Odin (god in Norse mythology)
variant of 孤苦伶仃
stir-fried diced pork
gong bao chicken / spicy diced chicken
chitin
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
(medicine) dolantin (loanword) / pethidine
suddenly
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
St Augustine / Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher / Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany
St Vincent and Grenadines, Caribbean island in Lesser Antilles
chicken with cashew nuts
Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定


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