定
定 in English
- to fix / to set / to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc) / to book (tickets etc) / to order (goods etc) / to congeal / to coagulate / (literary) definitely
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一定有解决的办法。
There must be some way to solve this.
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一言为定！
It's a deal!
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不决定本身就是一个决定。
Not choosing is choosing already.
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不是因为读者对某本书不感兴趣，这本书就肯定是有问题的了。
Just because a certain book does not interest readers does not mean that the fault lies in the book.
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买不买由你决定。
It is up to you whether to buy it or not.