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叮

dīng

HSK 6 Character

What 叮 means

1. to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc)
2. to say repeatedly
3. to urge insistently
4. to ask repeatedly
5. to stick to a point
6. onomatopoeiatinkling or jingling sound

Example sentences

• 我被蚊子叮了。
  Wǒ bèi wénzi dīng le.
  I was bitten by a mosquito.
• 我被很多的蚊子叮了。
  Wǒ bèi hěn duō de wénzi dīng le.
  I got a lot of mosquito bites.
• 真的不敢相信你在吃医生叮嘱不要食用的东西。
  Zhēn de bù gǎn xiāngxìn nǐ zài chī yīshēng dīngzhǔ bù yào shíyòng de dōngxi.
  I can't believe you are eating something the doctor has told you repeatedly you shouldn't eat.

Words starting with 叮

• 叮嘱dīng zhǔto warn repeatedly; to urge; to exhort again and again
• 叮当dīng dāng(onomatopoeia) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound
• 叮咛dīng níngto warn; to urge; to exhort
• 叮咚dīng dōng(onomatopoeia) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound
• 叮叮当当dīng dīng dāng dāng(onomatopoeia) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound
• 叮咬dīng yǎosting; bite (of insect)
• 叮叮dīng dīng(onomatopoeia) tinkling or jingling sound
• 叮问dīng wènto question closely; to make a detailed inquiry; to probe
• 叮铃dīng língjingle
• 叮叮猫dīng dīng māo(dialect) dragonfly
• 叮当声dīng dāng shēngtinkle
• 叮当响dīng dāng xiǎng(onomatopoeia) ding dong; jingling of bells; clanking sound

Words containing 叮

• 响叮当xiǎng dīng dāngto tinkle; to jingle; to clank
• 半瓶水响叮当bàn píng shuǐ xiǎng dīng dānglit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom)…
• 千叮万嘱qiān dīng wàn zhǔrepeatedly urging; imploring over and over again
• 苍蝇不叮无缝蛋cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dànlit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom); fig. no smoke without a fire

Characters that look like 叮

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

• 吖ā(used in transliterating chemical names)

Sounds the same

Read dīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丁male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干; fourth (used like "4" or "D")
• 盯to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at
• 钉nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)
• 町(used in place names)
• 酊tincture (loanword)
• 仃used in 伶仃
• 玎jingling; tinkling
• 耵used in 耵聍; Taiwan pr. dǐng
• 疔boil; carbuncle
• 帄patch (for mending clothes)
• 靪to cobble; to patch
• 虰see 虰蛵