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碟

dié

Character

What 碟 means

1. dish
2. plate

Example sentences

• 小菜一碟。
  Xiǎocàiyīdié.
  It's a piece of cake.
• 你看过飞碟吗？
  Nǐ kàn guo fēidié ma?
  Have you ever seen a UFO?
• 她给了我这个光碟。
  Tā gěi le wǒ zhège guāngdié.
  She gave me this compact disc.
• 晚饭后我洗了碗碟。
  I washed the dishes after supper.
• 把它保存在外接式硬碟。
  Bǎ tā bǎocún zài wàijiē shì yìngdié.
  Save it on the external hard drive.
• 我昨晚了听一些唱片光碟。
  Wǒ zuówǎn le tīng yīxiē chàngpiàn guāngdié.
  I listened to some CDs last night.

Words starting with 碟

• 碟子dié zisaucer; small dish
• 碟片dié piàndisc
• 碟仙dié xiānform of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their…

Words containing 碟

• 光碟guāng diéoptical disc; compact disc; CD
• 影碟yǐng diéDVD
• 飞碟fēi diéflying saucer; frisbee
• 小菜一碟xiǎo cài yī diéa small appetizer; a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
• 唱碟chàng diégramophone record; LP
• 歌碟gē diédisc; record (music)
• 硬碟yìng dié(Taiwan) hard disk; hard drive
• 磁碟cí dié(magnetic) computer disk (hard disk or floppy)
• 软碟ruǎn diéfloppy disk
• 光磁碟guāng cí diémagneto-optical disk; floptical disk
• 影碟机yǐng dié jīDVD player
• 打碟师dǎ dié shīDJ (disc jockey)
• 磁碟机cí dié jīdisk drive (computing); drive (computing)
• 翻版碟fān bǎn diécopy of DVD; pirate DVD
• 软磁碟ruǎn cí diéfloppy disk
• 随身碟suí shēn dié(Taiwan) USB flash drive; thumb drive
• 光磁碟机guāng cí dié jīmagneto-optical drive; floptical drive
• 音乐光碟yīn yuè guāng diémusic CD
• 硬式磁碟机yìng shì cí dié jīhard disk; hard drive
• 看人下菜碟儿kàn rén xià cài dié r(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc…

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
• 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
• 堞diébattlements
• 蹀diéto tread on; to stamp one's foot

Characters that look like 碟

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

• 碰pèngto touch; to meet with; to bump
• 蝶dié(bound form) butterfly
• 碌lùused in 劳碌; used in 庸碌; used in 骨碌
• 辗zhǎnused in 辗转
• 牒dié(official) document; dispatch
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳

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
• 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
• 堞battlements
• 咥gnaw; bite