Character Details
| first | Ascii: — | w529 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 第一 | dìyī | dee-ee | 4+1 | 一 (one) + 本 (木 tree radical + 一 root mark) + 书 (丿 stroke + 曰 text) | 第一 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - This is my first time here | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| top‑bottom; ordinal | 第 (⺮ bamboo radical + 弟 younger brother) + 一 (one) | ||||||||||
| The ordinal marker (第) pointing to the very first (一). | |||||||||||