帝
(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #817 U+5E1D
How 帝 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An altar on which a sacrifice is being made
How to remember it
sovereign · Heisig RSH #449
立 standing up + apron
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 帝 as their sound component
These characters all use 帝 (dì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 帝 sound component | dì | supreme ruler, emperor; god |
| 蒂 | dì | root cause; the stem of a fruit; the peduncle of a flower |
| 蹄 | tí | hoof; pig's trotter |
| 啼 | tí | to weep, to whimper; to howl; to crow |
| 缔 | dì | to tie, to join; knot, connection |
| 谛 | dì | careful, attentive; to examine; the truth |
| 啻 | chì | only, merely, just; to stop at |
| 碲 | dì | tellurium |
Words containing 帝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东罗马帝国 | dōng Luó mǎ Dì guó | Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453) |
| 帝国理工学院 | Dì guó Lǐ gōng Xué yuàn | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London |
| 神圣罗马帝国 | Shén shèng Luó mǎ Dì guó | the Holy Roman Empire (history) |
| 罗马帝国 | Luó mǎ Dì guó | Roman Empire |
| 帝国主义 | dì guó zhǔ yì | imperialism |
| 大清帝国 | Dà Qīng Dì guó | Great Qing Empire (1644-1911) |
| 哈里发帝国 | Hā lǐ fā Dì guó | Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德[Mu4 han3 mo4… |
| 亚历山大大帝 | Yà lì shān dà Dà dì | Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) |
| 黄帝八十一难经 | Huáng dì Bā shí yī Nàn jīng | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD |
| 东京帝国大学 | Dōng jīng Dì guó Dà xué | Tokyo Imperial University (renamed Tokyo University after 1945) |
| 三官大帝 | sān guān dà dì | the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism) |
| 白帝城 | Bái dì chéng | Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction |
| 黄帝内经 | Huáng dì Nèi jīng | The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC |
| 大英帝国 | Dà yīng Dì guó | British Empire |
| 道光帝 | Dào guāng dì | Daoguang Emperor |
| 黑客帝国 | Hēi kè Dì guó | The Matrix (1999 movie) |
| 黄帝族 | Huáng dì zú | tribes under the Yellow Emperor |
| 查理大帝 | Chá lǐ Dà dì | Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800 |
| 天高皇帝远 | tiān gāo huáng dì yuǎn | lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom); fig. remote places are beyond th… |
| 第三帝国 | Dì sān Dì guó | Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945) |