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抵

dǐ
verb #8,371

Meanings

  1. 1 to press against
  2. 2 to resist
  3. 3 to arrive

Examples

飞机已经抵达北京。
Fēijī yǐjīng dǐdá Běijīng.
The plane has arrived in Beijing.
这可以抵消损失。
Zhè kěyǐ dǐxiāo sǔnshī.
This can offset the loss.

Tips

usage
Common in 抵达 (dǐdá, to arrive) and 抵抗 (dǐkàng, to resist).

Components

radical
扌 shǒu
hand (radical form of 手)
Hand radical on the left — the indexing radical and the action-source for the whole character. Hands press, resist, and arrive bodily at a place; this puts 抵 alongside 推 (push), 拒 (refuse), 挡 (block), and 打 (strike) in the family of hand-driven verbs.
phonetic
氐 dǐ
base; foundation (here phonetic)
Right side 氐 supplies the sound dǐ directly. It originally meant 'reaching the base/root,' which doubles as a semantic hint: to press against, to reach the very bottom, to arrive. Same phonetic anchors 底 (bottom), 低 (low), 邸 (lodge), 砥 (whetstone) — a tight family clustered around 'base, low, ground-level'.

Stroke Order

抵 dǐ