fruit stem

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

帝 sound component

  Sound component

  

supreme ruler

Evolution

蒂 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
蒂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

peduncle or stem of plants; stem (of fruit)

() 

variant of [dì]

Most common words with 蒂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

stem (of fruit)

凯蒂

(name) Kitty, Cathy, Katy, Caddy etc

史蒂夫

Steve (male name)

根深蒂固

deep-rooted (problem etc)

斯蒂芬

Stephen or Steven (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.0133% of movies

769th most common character in movies

1429th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8482


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