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叠

疊
dié
verb HSK 7-9 #8,301

Meanings

  1. 1 to fold
  2. 2 to pile up
  3. 3 to stack
  4. 4 measure word for stacks of flat things (paper, banknotes, photos)

Examples

HSK 3
她手里拿着一叠照片。
Tā shǒulǐ ná zhe yì dié zhàopiàn.
She was holding a stack of photos.
HSK 5
请把衣服叠好放进柜子里。
Qǐng bǎ yīfu dié hǎo fàng jìn guìzi lǐ.
Please fold the clothes and put them in the closet.
HSK 7-9
桌上叠着一摞书。
Zhuōshàng dié zhe yíluò shū.
A stack of books is piled on the table.

Tips

memory
The traditional character 疊 visually looks like things stacked on top of each other - layers upon layers.

Components

radical
又 yòu
right hand; again
Top cluster of three 又 hands (the 叒 shape) - the indexing 又 radical, repeated three times to show many hands stacking things. The triple-hand drawing captures the core sense: layered, piled, the same action over and over. Don't split into individual 又; treat as one fused block.
semantic
宜 yí
suitable; offering table
Bottom 宜-shape (printed 冝 in some fonts) - originally depicted meat stacked on a sacrificial table. Combined with the hands above, the picture is hands piling cuts of meat on the altar layer upon layer - the source of the 'stack, fold, pile up' meaning 叠 still carries.

Stroke Order

叠 dié