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(tí) - question; topic; problem (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

tí

Traditional: 题

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Translation

question; topic; problem (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the head radical 页 (originally relating to the forehead) gives the meaning and 是 (shì) carries the sound; it came to mean a heading, topic, or question.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
是 (shì, phonetic) + 页 (head radical)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 题

题

Examples

。

This question is very hard.

。

We have a big problem.

。

He didn't answer this question.

。

This question is very difficult.

。

Please answer the next question.

题 (tí) is a bound morpheme meaning question, topic or problem, central to the everyday word 问题 (wèn tí).

Appears in 1 word

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 题.

问题wèn tíquestion, problem, issue

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