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缇

tí

Character Traditional 緹

What 缇 means

1. orange-red silk
2. orange-red colored

Example sentences

• 鲍勃几乎把他所收集的所有邮票给了缇娜，只留了一点给他自己。
  Bào bó jīhū bǎ tā suǒ shōují de suǒyǒu yóupiào gěi le tí nà, zhǐ liú le yīdiǎn gěi tā zìjǐ.
  Bob gave Tina almost all the stamps he had collected, and kept only a few for himself.

Characters built on 是

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

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 题títopic; problem for discussion; exam question
• 匙shiused in 钥匙
• 堤dīdike; Taiwan pr. tí
• 醍tíused in 醍醐
• 鳀tíanchovy
• 鞮dīleather shoes

Characters that look like 缇

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

• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish
• 绿lǜgreen; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 婕jiéused in 婕妤
• 绫língdamask; thin silk

Sounds the same

Read tí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 题topic; problem for discussion; exam question
• 提to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 啼(bound form) to cry; to weep loudly; (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot…
• 蹄hoof; pig's trotters
• 鹈used in 鹈鹕
• 醍used in 醍醐
• 媞used as phonetic; female name
• 禔well-being
• 鳀anchovy
• 荑(grass)
• 厗old stone or mineral, possibly related to antimony Sb 锑
• 绨coarse greenish black pongee