(dì) - younger brother (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
dìTraditional: 弟
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Translation
younger brother (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character originally showing cord wound in order around a stake, conveying sequence and order, which came to mean a younger brother, the one who follows in the family order.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- 弟 (a pictograph of cord wound in sequence, hence younger brother)
Stroke order
弟
Examples
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My younger brother is still at school.
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He looks very like his brothers.
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My younger brother is three years younger than me.
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I have one younger brother.
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My younger siblings are both at school.
弟 (dì) is a bound morpheme meaning younger brother, doubled in the everyday word 弟弟 (dì di) and paired in 兄弟 (xiōng dì).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 弟.
Used in
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