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Mythic Mandarin

对了 (duì le): meaning and stroke order

对了 (duì le) means Correct!, Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention).

对了

Simplified
对了
Traditional
對了
Pinyin
duì le

Stroke order of 对了

对

  • duì right; correct; towards; at; for
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 對

Stroke by stroke

了

  • le (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  • liǎo to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget")
  • liǎo (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted
  • 2 strokes
  • Traditional form: 瞭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 对了

  1. duì le Traditional 對了
    • Correct!
    • Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention)
    • Oh, by the way, ...

Radicals of the characters

对
Radical 寸 (Kangxi radical 41) · 5 strokes · 又 on the left, 寸 on the right
了
Radical 亅 (Kangxi radical 6) · 2 strokes · 乛 on top, 亅 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.

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).