(dì) - ordinal-number prefix (used before numbers) in Mandarin
dìTraditional: 第
HSK 2
#727 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
ordinal-number prefix (used before numbers)
Word origin
第 has the 竹 (bamboo) radical and is related to 弟 (dì, sequence), originally tied to the order of bamboo slips. It functions as the ordinal-number prefix, marking 'first, second' and so on.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 竹 (zhú, bamboo radical) + 弟 (dì, phonetic, sense of sequence)
Stroke order
第
Examples
。
I am number one.
。
This is the third time.
。
He sits in the second row.
。
He is in first place.
。
He is our first child.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 第.
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