dié
verb HSK 7-9 #8,301

Meanings

  1. 1 to fold
  2. 2 to pile up
  3. 3 to stack

Examples

Qǐng bǎ yīfu dié hǎo fàng jìn guìzi lǐ.
Please fold the clothes and put them in the closet.
Zhuōshàng dié zhe yīluò shū.
A stack of books is piled on the table.

Tips

memory
The traditional character visually looks like things stacked on top of each other — layers upon layers.

Components

radical
yòu
right hand; again
Top cluster of three hands (the shape) — the indexing radical, repeated three times to show many hands stacking things. The triple-hand drawing captures the core sense: layered, piled, the same action over and over. Don't split into individual ; treat as one fused block.
semantic
suitable; offering table
Bottom -shape (printed in some fonts) — originally depicted meat stacked on a sacrificial table. Combined with the hands above, the picture is hands piling cuts of meat on the altar layer upon layer — the source of the 'stack, fold, pile up' meaning still carries.

Stroke Order

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