堤
隄HSK 7freq #9859
Meanings
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- 1.variant of 堤[dī]
- 1.dike
- 2.Taiwan pr. [tí]
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Wiktionary
- 1.dyke; embankment
- 2.base of bottles
- 3.only used in 堤封 (shífēng, “in total; approximately”)
- 4.Used in place names.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *teː, *teːʔ, *dje): semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 是 (OC *djeʔ).
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Related words
堤坝 dam堤岸 embankment海堤 levee决堤 (of a watercourse) to breach its dike路堤 (road or railway) embankment堤防 dike那堤 (Tw) (loanword) latte防潮堤 tide embankment防波堤 breakwater小孩堤防 Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many tourists千里之堤,溃于蚁穴 (lit.) an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom)千里之堤,毁于蚁穴 see 千里之堤,千里之堤,溃于蚁穴[qiān lǐ zhī dī , kuì yú yǐ xué]