漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
諦: truth, clarity
Also: abandon, give up
N1 (our estimate)16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
言 carries the meaning · 帝 is drawn in
16 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 諦たいsatya; truth
- 俗諦ぞくたいconventional truth
あきらめるakirameru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 諦めるあきらめるto give up; to abandon (hope, plans)
Also read テイ, つまびらか, まこと, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
帝
Also built on sovereign (帝)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side諦 truth · 言
vs締 tighten · 糸In ChineseSimplified 谛 · traditional, as in Japanese · dì
Japan keeps the traditional form 諦; mainland China simplifies it to 谛.
- Simplified
- 谛 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 諦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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