duì
adjective HSK 1 #36

Meanings

  1. 1 right
  2. 2 correct
  3. 3 towards
  4. 4 to treat

Examples

Nǐ shuō de duì.
What you said is right.
Tā duì wǒ hěn hǎo.
She treats me very well.
Duìbuqǐ, wǒ chídào le.
Sorry, I'm late.

Tips

grammar
as a preposition means 'towards' or 'regarding': 对我来说 (for me / as far as I am concerned).
usage
Saying 对对对 is a common way to enthusiastically agree with someone in conversation.

Components

radical
cùn
inch; precise hand
Right side — also the indexing radical (Kangxi #41). depicts a hand with a small marker dot at the wrist showing the pulse-point: the place where one inch is measured. Marks as a precise, deliberate action: matching exactly, answering correctly, facing squarely. Same radical in (temple), (to seal), (to shoot).
semantic
yòu
right hand; again
Left side — pictograph of a right hand with three fingers. Replaced the much fuller phonetic of traditional in the 1956 reform; the modern hand depicts holding or grasping. Same hand also in , , — characters about handling. Together with the right side it pictures hands offering correctly across to one another.

Stroke Order

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