丁
dīng
HSK level: HSK 7–9
Meaning
male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl
Other reading: zhēng
used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]
Other reading: Dīng
surname Ding
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布丁 bù dīng pudding园丁 yuán dīng gardener奥丁 Ào dīng Odin但丁 Dàn dīng Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲丁磊 Dīng Lěi Ding Lei, founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易[Wang3 yi4]丁玲 Dīng Líng Ding Ling, Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River" 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上[Tai4 yang2 Zhao4 zai4 Sang1 gan1 He2 shang4], persecuted in the 1950s as "anti-Party"丁青 Dīng qīng see 丁青縣|丁青县[Ding1 qing1 Xian4]垦丁 Kěn dīng Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination马丁 Mǎ dīng Martin普丁 Pǔ dīng Vladimir Putin, Russian president武丁 Wǔ Dīng Wu Ding, Shang dynasty king known from oracle bone inscriptions亚丁 Yà dīng Aden白丁 bái dīng commoner补丁 bǔ ding patch成丁 chéng dīng to come of age丁丑 dīng chǒu fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057丁醇 dīng chún butanol丁点 dīng diǎn tiny bit丁鲷 dīng diāo tench丁丁 dīng dīng penis丁冬 dīng dōng ding dong丁夫 dīng fū a man old enough for corvée or military service丁鱥 dīng guì tench