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丁
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Definitions
- 1. male adult
- 2. the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tiān gān]
- 3. fourth (used like \4\ or \D\)
- 4. small cube of meat or vegetable
- 5. (literary) to encounter
- 6. (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°
- 7. (chemistry) butyl
Example Sentences
1 shown加一 丁 點鹽。
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Words Containing 丁
Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica)
Borodin (name)
Sint Maarten, island country in the Caribbean
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
Nottinghamshire (English county)
see 丁克[dīng kè]
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
tench (Tinca tinca)
go-kart
Kenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恆春半島|恒春半岛[héng chūn bàn dǎo], Pingtung county, south Taiwan
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
Kung Pao Chicken
the alphabet
suddenly
butene or butylene C4H8
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
satin (textile) (loanword)
Latin dance
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
butyrolactone
T-square
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth)
T-shaped
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
chopped fried noodles
butyl glycol
gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, GHB
tetrose (CH2O)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms
butyl ether
valitin (plain wool fabric) (loanword)
romanization
Aden
tiny bit
to burn down (idiom)
Dêngqên county, Tibetan: Steng chen rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[chāng dū dì qū], Tibet
also known as albuterol, proventil and ventolin
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
Martin (name)
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy
Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
illiterate
Blu-tack (brand)
Oudin coil
to add a son to the family
Latin America
thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017
Aston Martin
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[zā mǎ lá dīng]
T-bone steak
Ayding Lake (Aydingkol) in Xinjiang
Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定[lā mǐ fū dìng]
Latin square (math. puzzle)
pudding (loanword)
a tiny bit
see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[zā mǎ lá dīng]
butadiene C4H6
Gulf of Aden
gardener
dingo (Canis dingo)
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
isobutane
diced meat
Ding Ji (1917-1944), real name Li Baicen 李百岑, journalist based in Yanan, martyr of the revolution
hepatitis D
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
lilac (Syringa spp)
thong (underwear)
T-girder
(of a male) to come of age
Martin furnace
St Vincent and Grenadines, Caribbean island in Lesser Antilles
forty-fourth year D8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1967 or 2027
suddenly
lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom)
lilac
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
tench
Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty
albuterol (also known as proventil, salbutamol, ventolin), an asthma drug
Tintin, cartoon character
Dêngqên county, Tibetan: Steng chen rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[chāng dū dì qū], Tibet
Sardinia
stir-fried diced pork
Terengganu, northeast state of mainland Malaysia
hammer pick
martini (loanword)
Latin (language)
Zinedine Zidane (Zizou), a past French soccer player
butyraldehyde
chitin
St Augustine
chicken with cashew nuts
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc)
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
azetidine (chemistry) (loanword)
Latin
neoprene
butane
fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037
Ibuprofen or Nurofen
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
number of people in a family
Ding Lei (1971-), founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易[wǎng yì]
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
Odin (god in Norse mythology)
Latin alphabet
Nottingham (city in England)
gong bao chicken
double income family who have pets rather than children (see also 丁克[dīng kè])
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
chitin
total illiterate
dibutyl ether
diced chicken meat
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
Austin or Austen (name)
Latin (language)
butanol
Sardinia
T-step (basic dance position, with the feet forming a T shape)
see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[zā mǎ lá dīng]
adult male
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
(onom.) ding dong
Huntington's disease
Dual Income, No Kids (DINK) (loanword)
Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[zhāng xūn fù bì]
nicotine (loanword)
sardine (loanword)
(medicine) dolantin (loanword)
non-Latin characters
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
T-junction
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