滴 dī drop

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 滴 is in band 6. HSK 5 explained

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中滴means a drop. You'd say it when you lie awake at night and hear the kitchen tap leaking. You get up, tighten it, and the quiet comes back. Say it with me.

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Stroke order

滴 is written in 14 strokes.

滴 — the Chinese character for drop (dī), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 滴 — drop

Senses

to drip
to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc)
(bound form) a drop (of liquid)
classifier for drops of liquid

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Where 滴 lives

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滴 is pronounced dī and means “drop”.