(dǐ) - bottom, base; on earth (bound) in Mandarin
dǐTraditional: 底
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Translation
bottom, base; on earth (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the shelter radical 广 at the top suggests a building, and 氐 (di) below supplies the sound, giving the sense of the base or bottom of something.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 广 (shelter radical) + 氐 (di, phonetic)
Stroke order
底
Examples
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What on earth do you want?
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Who on earth is he?
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What on earth happened?
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There are many fish at the bottom of the water.
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I will give you the money at the end of the month.
底 (dǐ) means bottom or base; in conversation you mostly hear it in 到底 (dàodǐ), meaning on earth or after all.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 底.
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