(diǎn) - a bit, o'clock, point, dot in Mandarin
diǎnTraditional: 點
Translation
a bit, o'clock, point, dot
Word origin
点 (traditional 點) is a phono-semantic compound: in the traditional form 黑 (black) is the meaning element and 占 (zhān) the phonetic, a small black mark or dot. From 'dot' it extends to 'a bit', 'point', and 'o'clock'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 黑 (hēi, black) + 占 (zhān, phonetic)
Stroke order
点
Examples
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Three o'clock.
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A little difficult.
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You hit the nail on the head.
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Let's meet at three o'clock in the afternoon.
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Please give me a little water.
点 (diǎn) means a bit, o'clock, point, dot. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 点.
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