帖 (tiē): fitting snugly, appropriate, suitable
帖 (tiē) is a Chinese character meaning “fitting snugly.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 巾 (structural) and 占 (structural). It ranks #2686 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 帖 writing on a cloth 巾. Its radical form 巾 (cloth) appears in many related characters such as 师 (shī, teacher), 帮 (bāng, to help), 常 (cháng, always).
Definitions
- fitting snugly
- appropriate
- suitable
Etymology & Origin
ideographicWriting on a cloth 巾
Decomposition: ⿰巾占 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 请帖 | qǐng tiě | invitation card |
| 服服帖帖 | fú fu tiē tiē | submissive |
| 喜帖 | xǐ tiě | wedding invitation |
| 妥帖 | tuǒ tiē | properly |
| 回帖 | huí tiě | to reply to an invitation |
| 服帖 | fú tiē | docile |
| 谢帖 | xiè tiě | letter of thanks |
| 以斯帖记 | yǐ sī tiě jì | Book of Esther |
| 以斯帖 | yǐ sī tiě | Esther (name) |
| 帖木儿大汗 | tiē mù ér dà hán | Timur or Tamerlane (1336-1405), Mongol emperor and conqueror |
| 帖撒罗尼迦后书 | tiě sā luó ní jiā hòu shū | Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians |
| 帖撒罗尼迦前书 | tiě sā luó ní jiā qián shū | First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians |
| 字帖儿 | zì tiě r | piece of paper with short note |
| 简帖儿 | jiǎn tiě r | a letter |
| 大补帖 | dà bǔ tiě | tonic |
帖 appears in 33 compound words: 21 as the first character, 64 as the last, and 15 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 帖 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
这个帖字在古汉语中有不同的含义。
zhè gě tiē zì zài gǔ hàn yǔ zhōng yǒu bù tóng de hán yì .
The character "帖" had different meanings in Classical Chinese.
...以置信 期待收到中学同学Stanley喜帖
. . . yǐ zhì xìn qī dài shōu dào zhōng xué tóng xué S t a n l e y xǐ tiē
...I can't wait to receive the wedding invitation from my high school classmate Stanley
MCMC删帖=打压言论自由? 张念群斥逻辑简单粗暴:...
M C M C shān tiē dǎ yā yán lùn zì yóu ? zhāng niàn qún chì luó jí jiǎn dān cū bào : . . .
Does MCMC's removal of posts amount to a crackdown on free speech? Zhang Nianqun condemns the simplistic and heavy-handed logic:...
蓝营智库说帖曝光!挺3500亿军购 盼下月三读
lán yíng zhì kù shuō tiē pù guāng ! tǐng 3 5 0 0 yì jūn gòu pàn xià yuè sān dòu
The blue camp think tank post was exposed! Support 350 billion military purchases and look forward to the third reading next month
六旬翁FB发布130则煽动帖文 求情称是固执长者的宣泄 囚8月
liù xún wēng F B fā bù 1 3 0 zé shān dòng tiē wén qiú qíng chèn shì gù zhí cháng zhě de xuān xiè qiú 8 yuè
The sixty-year-old posted 130 inflammatory posts on FB, pleading for catharsis from stubborn elders, and was imprisoned for 8 months
广东一公司发帖“悬赏60万寻狗”,公司负责人称“赏..
guǎng dōng yī gōng sī fā tiē xuán shǎng 6 0 wàn xún gǒu , gōng sī fù zé rén chèn shǎng . .
A company in Guangdong posted a "reward of 600,000 dogs", and the person in charge of the company said that "reward:
我收到了一张请帖。
Wǒ shōudào le yī zhāng qǐngtiě.
I received an invitation.
我刚在我的博客上发表了一个新帖子。
Wǒ gāng zài wǒ de bókè shàng fābiǎo le yī gè xīn tiězi.
I've just published a new post on my blog.
发给好朋友的请帖上有新郎新娘合影的照片。
Fāgěi hǎopéngyou de qǐngtiě shàng yǒu xīnláng xīnniáng héyǐng de zhàopiàn.
There's a photo of the bride and groom together on the invitation sent to friends.
Character Family
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