diǎn

dot

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
黑 meaning component

  Meaning component

hēi

  

black

占 sound component

  Sound component

zhànzhān

  

divine

Evolution

點 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
點 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

diǎn

dot, speck, spot; point, degree; point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order (food in a restaurant); to touch briefly; to hint; to light; to ignite; to pour a liquid drop by drop; (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch [gēng]; dot stroke in Chinese characters; classifier for items

Most common words with 點
Freq.
Word
Meaning

point

有点

a little

重点

focus

一点

a bit

特点

trait

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤemʔ

temX

diǎn

black spot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9039% of movies

61st most common character in movies

128th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+9EDE

Shuowen

“點,小黑也。从黑,占聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License