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叮咛

dīng níng

2-character word Traditional 叮嚀

What 叮咛 means

1. to warn
2. to urge
3. to exhort
4. to give instructions carefully and insistently

The characters in 叮咛

• 叮dīngto sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently
• 咛níngto enjoin

Sounds the same

Read dīng níng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 耵聍earwax; cerumen
• 丁宁variant of 叮咛

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