哋

dì
particle

Meanings

  1. 1 plural marker for pronouns (Cantonese)

Examples

HSK 2
" keoi⁵ dei⁶ zou⁶ gan² mat¹ je⁵? " shì Yuèyǔ, yìsi shì " tāmen zài zuò shénme? "
佢哋做紧乜嘢? is Cantonese for 'What are they doing?'
HSK 7-9
Yuèyǔ lǐ, ngo⁵ dei⁶ shì " wǒmen ".
In Cantonese, 我哋 means 'we'.

Tips

register
Cantonese only, the spoken counterpart of Mandarin 们. Attach it to a pronoun to make it plural: 我 (ngo⁵) 'I' becomes 我哋 (ngo⁵ dei⁶) 'we', 佢 (keoi⁵) 'he/she' becomes 佢哋 (keoi⁵ dei⁶) 'they'. The Mandarin reading dì is almost never used in speech.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The mouth radical 口 marks this as a spoken-language particle - a common job for the mouth radical, which flags sounds, speech words, and colloquial grammar markers.
phonetic
地 dì
earth; ground
Provides the sound. Standalone 地 ('earth') here lends only its pronunciation; the mouth radical was added in front to coin a purely grammatical spoken particle.

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Stroke Order

哋 dì