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荻

dí

Character

What 荻 means

1. Anaphalis yedoensis (pearly everlasting reed)
2. used in Japanese names with phonetic value Ogi

Words containing 荻

• 芦荻lú díreeds
• 画荻教子huà dí jiào zǐto write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom)…

Characters that look like 荻

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

• 获huò(literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win
• 疯fēnginsane; mad; wild
• 菇gū(bound form) mushroom
• 敖Áosurname Ao
• 麸fūbran
• 崧sōngvariant of 嵩

Sounds the same

Read dí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 敌(bound form) enemy; (bound form) to be a match for; to rival; (bound form) to resist…
• 迪to enlighten
• 笛flute
• 狄low ranking public official (old)
• 翟long-tail pheasant
• 涤to wash; to cleanse
• 的really and truly
• 嫡(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶
• 嘀used in 嘀咕
• 籴to buy up (grain)
• 篴flute
• 觌face to face

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