(dí) - enemy, foe in Mandarin
díTraditional: 敌
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Translation
enemy, foe
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: 舌 (she) on the left supplies the sound, and 攵 (the strike radical) on the right gives the sense of hostile action, hence an enemy or foe.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 舌 (she, phonetic) + 攵 (strike radical)
Stroke order
敌
Examples
。
They are enemies.
撤退。
The enemy retreated.
。
Do not underestimate the enemy.
。
We have defeated the enemy.
。
He treats me as an enemy.
敌 (dí) means enemy or foe, and combines with 人 in 敌人 (dí rén), enemy.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 敌.
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