Keyword
low ranking public official
- barbarians
- a tribe from northern China
- surname
- Frequency
- #2792
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
dí
Mnemonic
犭 (animal) gives the meaning and 火 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
狄
low ranking public official (old)
狄仁杰
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends; master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 (Dígōng'àn) translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高罗佩 (GāoLuópèi)
狄更斯
Dickens (name); Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
康涅狄格
Connecticut, US state
狄拉克
P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), British physicist
俄狄浦斯
Oedipus, hero of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Athenian dramatist Sophocles
康乃狄克
Connecticut, US state (Tw)
狄奥多
Theodor (name)
拉狄克
Karl Berngardovich Radek (1885-1939), Bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, died in prison during Stalin's purges
鲍狄埃
Eugène Edine Pottier (1816-1887), French revolutionary socialist and poet
夷狄
non-Han tribes in the east and north of ancient China; barbarians