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Mythic Mandarin

确定 (què dìng): meaning and stroke order

确定 (què dìng) means definite, certain, fixed, to fix (on sth), to determine, to be sure, to ensure.

确定

Simplified
确定
Traditional
確定
Pinyin
què dìng

Stroke order of 确定

确

  • què variant of 確|确[que4]; variant of 埆[que4]
  • què authenticated; solid
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 確

Stroke by stroke

定

  • dìng to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc)
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 确定

  1. què dìng Traditional 確定
    • definite
    • certain
    • fixed
    • to fix (on sth)
    • to determine
    • to be sure
    • to ensure
    • to make certain
    • to ascertain
    • to clinch
    • to recognize
    • to confirm
    • OK (on computer dialog box)

Radicals of the characters

确
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 12 strokes · 石 on the left, 角 on the right
定
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 𤴓 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.

确定 in our stories

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  • 直到确定天地再也不会合上，这位精疲力尽的巨人才终于倒了下去。

    zhídào quèdìng tiān dì zài yě bú huì hé shàng zhè wèi jīngpí-lìjìn de jùrén cái zhōngyú dǎo le xiàqu

    Only when he was sure that heaven and earth would never close again did the exhausted giant finally fall.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 确定

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).