碟 (dié): plate, dish
碟 (dié) is a Chinese character meaning “plate, dish.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 石 (structural) and 枼 (structural). It ranks #2656 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 碟 a flat 枼 stone 石. Its radical form 石 (stone) appears in many related characters such as 确 (què, certain, true), 碗 (wǎn, bowl), 碰 (pèng, to touch, to bump).
Definitions
- plate, dish
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞碟 | fēi dié | flying saucer |
| 碟子 | dié zi | saucer |
| 影碟 | yǐng dié | DVD |
| 磁碟 | cí dié | (magnetic) computer disk (hard disk or floppy) |
| 光碟 | guāng dié | optical disc |
| 碟片 | dié piàn | disc |
| 影碟机 | yǐng dié jī | DVD player |
| 看人下菜碟儿 | kàn rén xià cài dié r | (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom) |
| 小碟子 | xiǎo dié zi | saucer |
| 小菜一碟 | xiǎo cài yī dié | a small appetizer |
| 音乐光碟 | yīn yuè guāng dié | music CD |
| 小菜碟儿 | xiǎo cài dié r | erhua variant of 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2] |
| 随身碟 | suí shēn dié | (Tw) USB flash drive |
| 硬式磁碟机 | yìng shì cí dié jī | hard disk |
| 光磁碟机 | guāng cí dié jī | magneto-optical drive |
碟 appears in 24 compound words: 13 as the first character, 58 as the last, and 29 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 碟 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
请把菜盛到碟子里，不要直接放在桌上。
Qǐng bǎ cài chéng dào diézi lǐ, búyào zhíjiē fàng zài zhuō shang.
Please serve the food on plates; don't put it directly on the table.
...ba 启动30-34TB SMR 近线硬碟样品出货
. . . b a qǐ dòng 3 0 3 4 T B S M R jìn xiàn yìng dié yàng pǐn chū huò
...出蓝光市场 Elecom停售外接式蓝光光碟机
. . . chū lán guāng shì chǎng E l e c o m tíng shòu wài jiē shì lán guāng guāng dié jī
...With the Blu-ray market on the decline, Elecom has discontinued its external Blu-ray drives
隐藏记忆体硬碟概念股?这档股价再攻涨停 波段大涨近六成
yǐn zàng jì yì tǐ yìng dié gài niàn gǔ ? zhè dàng gǔ jià zài gōng zhǎng tíng bō duàn dà zhǎng jìn liù chéng
Stocks linked to the concept of hidden memory drives? This stock hits another daily limit up, surging nearly 60% over the recent period
英男飛美國大掃貨!買「10顆硬碟」送紐約5天4夜 驚人價差曝光
yīng nán 飛 měi 國 dà 掃 貨 ! 買 顆 yìng dié sòng 紐 約 tiān yè 驚 rén 價 chā pù guāng
British Man Flies to U.S. for Massive Shopping Spree! Buys "10 Hard Drives" and Gets 5 Days/4 Nights in New York Free—Shocking Price Difference Revealed
惠子巧妙地把碗碟迭起再拿到水槽。
Huì zǐ qiǎomiàodi bǎ wǎn dié diéqǐ zài ná dào shuǐcáo.
Keiko deftly piles up the dishes and takes them to the sink.
晚饭后我洗了碗碟。
Wǎnfàn hòu wǒ xǐ le wǎn dié.
I washed the dishes after supper.
我儿子跟着小王买碟片去了。
Wǒ érzi gēnzhe xiǎo Wáng mǎi diépiàn qù le.
My son followed Xiao Wang to buy disks.
昨晚他看见天上有个飞碟。
Zuówǎn tā kànjiàn tiānshàng yǒu gè fēidié.
He saw a UFO flying last night.
把它保存在外接式硬碟。
Bǎ tā bǎocún zài wàijiē shì yìngdié.
Save it on the external hard drive.
Character Family
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