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酊

dīng

Character

What 酊 means

1. tincture (loanword)

Other readings

酊 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dǐngused in {酩酊|mǐng dǐng}

Example sentences

• 他喝得酩酊大醉。
  Tā hē de mǐngdǐngdàzuì.
  He got very drunk.
• 我的朋友全都喝得酩酊大醉，我只好开车把他们送回家。
  Wǒ de péngyou quándōu hē de mǐngdǐngdàzuì, wǒ zhǐhǎo kāichē bǎ tāmen sòng huíjiā.
  My friends were so boozed up that I had to drive them home.

Words starting with 酊

• 酊剂dīng jìtincture

Words containing 酊

• 酩酊大醉mǐng dǐng dà zuì(idiom) dead drunk; plastered; as drunk as a lord
• 酩酊mǐng dǐngblind drunk

Characters that look like 酊

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

• 配pèito join; to fit; to mate
• 衍yǎnto spread out; to develop; to overflow
• 贮zhùto store; to save; stockpile
• 酐gānanhydride
• 昕xīndawn
• 豺cháidog-like animal; ravenous beast; dhole (Cuon Alpinus)

Sounds the same

Read dīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丁male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干; fourth (used like "4" or "D")
• 盯to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at
• 钉nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)
• 叮to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently
• 町(used in place names)
• 仃used in 伶仃
• 玎jingling; tinkling
• 耵used in 耵聍; Taiwan pr. dǐng
• 疔boil; carbuncle
• 帄patch (for mending clothes)
• 靪to cobble; to patch
• 虰see 虰蛵