Character Details
| article; number | Ascii: 28909 | w410 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 第 | dì | dee | 4 | 竹 (bamboo) + 弟 (younger brother) → ordinal prefix | 第 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The No. 1 currency in the world is the dollar. But the Asian nations are fast catching up and may in reality have already surpassed it. So, let the bamboo represent the No. 2 currencies (the yen, etc.). The reverse order (bamboo on top and the dollar on the bottom) is really a look at the future. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
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| - This is my first time here | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 119 - 石 | shí | stand-up | stone | stone block | 石 破 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 竹 (bamboo) + 弟 (younger brother) → ordinal prefix | 竹 (semantic) | 弟 (phonetic) | phonetic from 弟 | ||||||||