典
Meanings
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- 1.canon
- 2.law
- 3.standard work of scholarship
- 4.literary quotation or allusion
- 5.ceremony
- 6.to be in charge of
- 7.to mortgage or pawn
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Wiktionary
- 1.law, canon
- 2.documentation
- 3.classic work; (religion) scripture
- 4.classic, typical (complaint that something is cliche or common in a negative way)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 冊 (“books”) + 丌 (“table”) – (official) books on a table. Unrelated to 曲 and 曹. From Proto-Sinitic *dʰiəm.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
查詞典。
Check your dictionary.
你要去買詞典嗎？
Are you going to buy a dictionary?
把那本詞典遞給我。
Bring me the dictionary.
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Derived terms
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Related words
经典 the classics典型 model典礼 ceremony; celebration古典 classical庆典 celebration典范 model字典 Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典[cí diǎn], which has entries for words of one or more characters)词典 dictionary辞典 variant of 词典[cí diǎn]非典 atypical pneumonia宝典 canonical text唇典 argot