滴dī
drop (of liquid). 14 strokes, radical 氵, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin dīStrokes 14Radical 氵Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 滴
Strokes 1–3 write 氵, then strokes 4–14 write 啇.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 滴 · the stroke-order rules
What 滴 is made of
氵 (shuǐ, water) and 啇 (dì, stalk).
氵 carries the meaning — water — and 啇 carries the sound.
Words that use 滴
| 滴 | drop (of liquid) 指液体的一点点 科研人员流下一滴辛勤的汗水。Every drop of sweat marked the researchers' hard-won progress. Lesson 567, 守正知止 · 笃行实证与智网经纬 · Modern Infrastructure & Civic Rigor |
Characters that share the sound part 啇
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 氵
All 76 of them, and what the radical means, on the 氵 radical page.