noun #36,671

Meanings

  1. 1 (used in 醍醐 tíhú) clarified butter; ghee; the finest cream

Examples

Tā de huà xiàng tíhú-guàndǐng, ràng wǒ huòrán-kāilǎng.
His words were like having ghee poured on my head — they gave me sudden clarity.
Tí zhège zì jīhū zhǐ chūxiàn zài tíhú lǐ.
The character 醍 almost only appears in the word 醍醐.

Tips

usage
is a bound morpheme — you'll only meet it in (tíhú, clarified butter / ghee), and almost always in the chengyu 醍醐灌顶 (tíhú-guàndǐng, 'pouring ghee on the head' = sudden enlightenment). Worth learning that single context.

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