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叠 (dié): meaning and stroke order

叠 (dié) means to pile up, (bound form) repeated, to fold, classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects).

叠

Simplified
叠
Traditional
疊, 曡, 疉
Pinyin
dié

Stroke order of 叠

叠

  • dié variant of 疊|叠[die2]
  • dié variant of 疊|叠[die2]
  • dié to pile up; (bound form) repeated
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 曡

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 叠

  1. dié Traditional 疊
    • to pile up
    • (bound form) repeated
    • to fold
    • classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects)
    • classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition
  2. dié Traditional 曡
    • variant of 疊|叠[die2]
  3. dié Traditional 疉
    • variant of 疊|叠[die2]

Radical and structure

叠
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 13 strokes · 叒 on top, 冝 below

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.

叠 in our stories

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  • 回到酒店，他打开行李箱，发现秘书顺手放进去的一叠旧文件里，夹着一张发黄的草稿纸。

    huídào jiǔdiàn tā dǎkāi xínglixiāng fāxiàn mìshū shùnshǒu fàng jìnqu de yì dié jiù wénjiàn lǐ jiā zhe yì zhāng fāhuáng de cǎogǎozhǐ

    Back at the hotel he opened his suitcase and found, among a pile of old papers his secretary had tucked in, a yellowed sheet of scrap paper.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 叠

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).