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典

diǎn

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character

What 典 means

1. canon
2. law
3. standard work of scholarship
4. literary quotation or allusion
5. ceremony
6. to be in charge of
7. to mortgage or pawn

Example sentences

• 查词典。
  Check your dictionary.
• 我有词典。
  I have a dictionary.
• 我有字典。
  I have the dictionary.
• 我说瑞典语。
  Wǒ shuō Ruìdiǎnyǔ.
  I speak Swedish.
• 这词典不好。
  This dictionary is no good.
• 我有本字典。
  I have a dictionary.

Words starting with 典

• 典型diǎn xíngmodel; typical case; archetype
• 典礼diǎn lǐceremony; celebration
• 典雅diǎn yǎrefined; elegant
• 典范diǎn fànmodel; example; paragon
• 典故diǎn gùclassical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth
• 典籍diǎn jíancient books or records
• 典当diǎn dàngto pawn
• 典章diǎn zhānginstitution; institutional
• 典质diǎn zhìto mortgage; to pawn
• 典型化diǎn xíng huàstereotype; exemplar; typification
• 典当行diǎn dàng hángpawnshop
• 典型登革热diǎn xíng dēng gé rèdengue fever
• 典型用途diǎn xíng yòng tútypical use; typical application
• 典座diǎn zuò(Buddhism) the kitchen manager in a monastery; (Buddhism) (historical) monk responsible…
• 典藏diǎn cángrepository of items of cultural significance; collection
• 典狱长diǎn yù zhǎngwarden
• 典押diǎn yāsee 典当

Words containing 典

• 字典zì diǎnChinese character dictionary…
• 词典cí diǎndictionary
• 经典jīng diǎnthe classics; scriptures; classical
• 古典gǔ diǎnclassical
• 瑞典Ruì diǎnSweden
• 雅典Yǎ diǎnAthens, capital of Greece
• 庆典qìng diǎncelebration
• 大典dà diǎnceremony; collection of classical writings
• 古典文学gǔ diǎn wén xuéclassical literature
• 法典fǎ diǎnlegal code; statute
• 恩典ēn diǎnfavor; grace
• 盛典shèng diǎnmajestic pomp; grand ceremony
• 瑞典人ruì diǎn rénSwede
• 雅典娜Yǎ diǎn nàAthena
• 引经据典yǐn jīng jù diǎnlit. to quote the classics; to quote chapter and verse (idiom)
• 事典shì diǎnencyclopedia
• 用典yòng diǎnto use literary quotations; to use phrases taken from the classics
• 圣典shèng diǎnsacred writing; canon
• 药典yào diǎnpharmacopoeia
• 重典zhòng diǎnimportant classic text; severe laws
• 非典fēi diǎnatypical pneumonia; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; SARS
• 释典shì diǎnBuddhist doctrine; sutras
• 原典版yuán diǎn bǎn(Taiwan) Urtext edition
• 古典乐gǔ diǎn yuèclassical music (mainly Western)

Characters that look like 典

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 我wǒI; me; my
• 两liǎngtwo; both; some
• 举jǔto lift; to hold up; to cite
• 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划
• 奔bēnto hurry; to rush; to run quickly
• 劵juànold variant of 倦

Sounds the same

Read diǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 点to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)…
• 踮to stand on tiptoe; Taiwan pr. diàn
• 碘iodine (chemistry)
• 琠gem used as ear plug; jade earrings
• 奌variant of 点

Where 典 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 33 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read diǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.