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得以 (dé yǐ): meaning and stroke order

得以 (dé yǐ) means able to, so that sb can, enabling, in order to, finally in a position to, with sth in view.

得以

Simplified
得以
Traditional
得以 (same form)
Pinyin
dé yǐ

Stroke order of 得以

得

  • dé to obtain; to get
  • dè used in 得瑟[de4 se5]
  • de structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

以

  • yǐ old variant of 以[yi3]
  • yǐ old variant of 以[yi3]
  • Yǐ abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㕥

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 得以

  1. dé yǐ
    • able to
    • so that sb can
    • enabling
    • in order to
    • finally in a position to
    • with sth in view

Radicals of the characters

得
Radical 彳 (Kangxi radical 60) · 11 strokes · 彳 on the left, 㝵 on the right
以
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

得以 in our stories

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  • 有一户人家的族谱上,竟然也记着一句话:“光绪某年大饥,赖米店主人暗中接济,得以活命。”

    yǒu yí hù rénjiā de zúpǔ shàng jìngrán yě jì zhe yí jù huà Guāngxù mǒu nián dà jī lài mǐ diàn zhǔrén ànzhōng jiējì déyǐ huómìng

    In one family's genealogy there was, astonishingly, this line: "In a year of great famine under Guangxu, we survived thanks to the secret help of the rice-shop owner."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 得以

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).