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diǎn

diǎn · din2 (Jyutping)

  1. canon
  2. law
  3. standard work of scholarship
  4. literary quotation or allusion
  5. ceremony
  6. to be in charge of
  7. to mortgage or pawn

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

典

Meaning
law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture
Radical
八
Strokes
8
Components
⿱曲八
Cangjie
TBC
Four-corner
5580.1

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