dié
verb #30,978

Meanings

  1. 1 to chatter, talk on and on (in 喋喋 diédié)
  2. 2 to tread (in 喋血 diéxuè 'to wade through blood')

Examples

Tā diédié bù xiū de jiǎng le yī gè xiǎoshí.
She prattled on without stopping for an hour.
Diànyǐng «Diéxuè Shuāngxióng» shì Wú Yǔsēn de dàibiǎo zuò.
The film 'The Killer' (literally 'Bloodshed Two Heroes') is a signature work of John Woo.

Tips

usage
rarely appears alone in modern Chinese — it lives almost entirely in two compounds: 喋喋不休 diédié bù xiū ('to prattle on without stopping') and diéxuè ('bloodbath', literally 'to tread on blood'). The latter gives John Woo's classic film its Chinese title .
memory
Mouth radical + (leaf, phonetic): the two leaves of paper-thin lips flapping endlessly = chatter.

Stroke Order

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