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堞

dié

Character

What 堞 means

1. battlements

Characters built on 枼

These share the phonetic component 枼 (), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 谍diéto spy
• 蝶dié(bound form) butterfly
• 碟diédish; plate
• 喋diéused in 喋喋; used in 喋血
• 牒dié(official) document; dispatch
• 鲽diéflatfish; flounder; sole
• 渫xièto get rid of; to discharge; to dredge
• 蹀diéto tread on; to stamp one's foot

Sounds the same

Read dié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蝶(bound form) butterfly
• 叠to pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold
• 谍to spy
• 碟dish; plate
• 迭alternately; repeatedly
• 牒(official) document; dispatch
• 喋used in 喋喋; used in 喋血
• 耋aged; in one's eighties
• 鲽flatfish; flounder; sole
• 眣prominent eyes
• 垤anthill; mound
• 咥gnaw; bite