adverb #11,288

Meanings

  1. 1 too
  2. 2 excessively
  3. 3 to err

Examples

Zhè yě tè guì le ba!
This is way too expensive!
Nǐ tè xiǎokàn rén le.
You're looking down on people too much.

Tips

register
is literary/archaic in standard Mandarin (tè = to err). As a dialect word meaning 'too/very' (tēi in northern dialects), it appears in classical texts and some regional speech.
memory
Heart radical () + (weapon) = a heart that's gone too far, like overshooting with a weapon. Hence 'excessive'.

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