Chinese Character Wiki
丁

dīng

cubes

Original meaning: 

city wall

In ancient scripts 丁 was written in two different ways: (1) depicting the walls of a city, which is now written as 圍, or (2) depicting a nail, which is now written as 釘.

Evolution

丁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
丁 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
丁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
丁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
丁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

丁  

dīng

male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem; fourth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí​tiān​gān]; fourth in order; letter "D" or Roman "IV" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; butyl; cubes (of food)

丁  

Dīng

surname Ding

Most common words with 丁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

丁

butyl

马丁

Martin (name)

拉丁

Latin

布丁

pudding (loanword)

拉丁美洲

Latin America

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

虰

Sound component in 24 characters (14 verified)

成 正 真 打 顶 頂 寧 灯 訂 订 厅 亭 釘 钉 盯 叮 汀 町 酊 仃 玎 疔 耵 虰

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

成 正

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤeŋ

teng

dīng

4th heavenly stem

*tˤeŋ

teng

dīng

nail (n.)

*tˤreŋ

treang

zhēng

sound of beating


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.2489% of movies

1152nd most common character in movies

1168th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Unicode

U+4E01

Shuowen

“丁，夏時萬物皆丁實。象形。丁承丙，象人心。”


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