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丁 Dīng Ding - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

Chinese elementary school students with this surname are often the envy of their classmates, since this character is so easy to write! There also exists a chengyu (idiom) with this character, written with characters which you have learned: 目不识丁 (目不識丁) mù-bù-shí-Dīng meaning lit. “eyes not recognize (even the character) Ding,” or in more idiomatic English, “illiterate.”

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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