典
Meaning
diǎn dian3
- canon
- law
- standard work of scholarship
- literary quotation or allusion
- ceremony
- to be in charge of
- to mortgage or pawn
Example sentences
- Compiling a dictionary demands an enormous amount of time.
HSK words with 典
- 字典zìdiǎnChinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters)
- 词典cídiǎndictionary
- 经典jīngdiǎnthe classics
- 典型diǎnxíngmodel
- 典礼diǎnlǐcelebration
- 辞典cídiǎndictionary (variant of 词典)
- 古典gǔdiǎnclassical
- 庆典qìngdiǎncelebration
- 典范diǎnfànmodel
- 引经据典yǐnjīngjùdiǎnlit. to quote the classics