dìng
noun #68,318

Meanings

  1. 1 (dialectal) buttocks; butt

Examples

Dìng zài fāngyán lǐ zhǐ pìgu.
In northern dialect this character means the buttocks; standard Chinese says 屁股.

Tips

history
is a regional (mainly Shandong / northern) word that does not appear in standard written Chinese, where 屁股 is used. It is a body-part char: the flesh radical ⺼ plus the phonetic .
register
Dialectal and colloquial — heard in northern speech and seen in dialect writing, not in formal standard Chinese.

Components

radical
ròu
flesh; body part
⺼ is the flesh-meat radical, the body-part form of . It marks as a body part, grouping it with other anatomy chars.
phonetic
dìng
to fix; settled (phonetic)
supplies the sound dìng with no meaning contribution. It is a familiar standalone character meaning to fix or settle, reused here purely for its reading.

Stroke Order

dìng