堤
dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,886 U+5824
How 堤 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 是 (phonetic, shì)
How to remember it
dike · Heisig RSH #1673
土 soil + 是 be
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 是
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 是 (shì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 是 sound component | shì | to be; indeed, right, yes; okay |
| 提 | tí | to hold in the hand; to lift, to raise |
| 题 | tí | forehead; headline, title; theme |
| 匙 | chí | spoon; surname |
| 醍 | tí | essential oil of butter |
| 踶 | dì | paw |
| 鞮 | dī | leather shoes |
| 鳀 | tí | anchovy |
| 缇 | tí | orange-red silk; red, brown |
Words containing 堤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千里之堤，毁于蚁穴 | qiān lǐ zhī dī , huǐ yú yǐ xué | see 千里之堤，潰於蟻穴|千里之堤，溃于蚁穴[qian1 li3 zhi1 di1 , kui4 yu2 yi3 xue2] |
| 千里之堤，溃于蚁穴 | qiān lǐ zhī dī , kuì yú yǐ xué | (lit.) an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom); (fig.) huge damage may … |
| 防波堤 | fáng bō dī | breakwater; seawall; fig. defensive buffer zone |
| 小孩堤防 | Xiǎo hái Dī fáng | Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many t… |
| 防潮堤 | fáng cháo dī | tide embankment |
| 海堤 | hǎi dī | levee; dyke; seawall |
| 路堤 | lù dī | (road or railway) embankment |
| 堤防 | dī fáng | dike; embankment; levee |
| 那堤 | nà tí | (Tw) (loanword) latte |
| 决堤 | jué dī | (of a watercourse) to breach its dike; (of dikes) to collapse |
| 堤岸 | dī àn | embankment; bank; levee |
| 堤坝 | dī bà | dam; dike |