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铤

dìng

Character Traditional 鋌

What 铤 means

1. ingot

Other readings

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

• tǐngbig arrow; walk fast

Example sentences

• 铤而走险。
  Tǐng'érzǒuxiǎn.
  Necessity knows no law.

Words starting with 铤

• 铤而走险tǐng ér zǒu xiǎnto take a risk out of desperation (idiom)

Characters built on 廷

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

• 庭tíngmain hall; front courtyard; law court
• 挺tǐngstraight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body)
• 艇tǐng(bound form) boat; craft (esp. small or naval)
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 蜓tíngsee 蜻蜓
• 梃tǐnga club (weapon)

Characters that look like 铤

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

• 艇tǐng(bound form) boat; craft (esp. small or naval)
• 铰jiǎoscissors; to cut (with scissors)
• 锄chúa hoe; to hoe or dig; to weed
• 铍píberyllium (chemistry)
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 锏jiǎnancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon

Sounds the same

Read dìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 定to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 订to agree; to conclude; to draw up
• 钉to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points; to nail; to pin
• 锭(weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc
• 腚buttocks; butt
• 啶idine (chemistry)
• 碇anchor
• 饤display food for show only; sacrifice
• 萣see 茄萣