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丁 U+4E01, 丁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E01 ← 一 CJK Unified Ideographs 丂 →

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Stroke order

Stroke order

丁 (Kangxi radical 1, 一+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一弓 (MN), four-corner 1020₀, composition ⿱一亅)

• 仃, 㓅, 叮, 圢, 奵, 帄, 㣔, 忊, 打, 汀, 𭷸, 䦺, 朾, 灯, 玎, 町, 盯, 矴, 糽, 耓, 耵, 虰, 訂(订), 䟓, 酊, 釘(钉), 𠁂, 靪, 飣(饤), 䰳
• 𫞻, 邒, 𤆉, 㼗, 𠀲, 頂(顶), 𩾚, 亍, 宁, 𥫙, 艼, 甼, 䆑, 亭, 𠅘, 㸘, 寕, 閅, 寧, 厅, 庁, 疔, 㐉, 可, 𭴀, 于, 𣑥, 𤡛, 𥢃, 𬻄

Chinese Wikisource has digitized text of the Kangxi Dictionary entry for 丁:

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Wikisource

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 75, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2
• Dae Jaweon: page 135, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 2, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E01

Historical forms of the character 丁
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Libian (compiled in Qing)	Kangxi Dictionary (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Clerical script	Ming typeface
Oracle bone script j30153 j30154 j30155 j30156 j30157 j30158 j30159 j30160 j30161 j30162 j30163 j30164 j30165 j30166 j30167 j30168 j30169 j30170 j30171 j30172 j30173 j30174 j30175 j30176 j30177 j30178 j30179 j30180 j30181 j30182 j30183 j30184 j30185 j30186 j30187 j30188 j30189 j30190 j30191 j30192 j30193 j30194 j30195 j30196 j30197 j30198 j30199 j30200 j30201 j30202 j30203 j30204 j30205 j30206 j30207 j30208 j30209 j30210 j30211 j30212 j30213 j30214 j30215 j30216 j30217 j30218 j30219 j30220 j30221 j30222 j30223 j30224 j30225 j30226 j30227 j30228 j30229 j30230 j30231 j30232 j30233 j30234 j30235 j30236 j30237 j30238 j30239 j30240 j30241 j30242 j30243 j30244 j30245 j30246 j30247 j30248 j30249 j30250 j30251 j30252 j30253 j30254 j30255 j30256 j30257 j30258 j30259 j30260 j30261 j30262 j30263 j30264 j30265 j30266 j30267 j30268 j30269 j30270 j30271 j30272 j30273 j30274 j30275 j30276 j30277 j30278 j30279 j30280 j30281 j30282 j30283 j30284 j30285 j30286 j30287 j30288 j30289 j30290 j30291 j30292 j30293 Bronze inscriptions b20292 b20293 b20294 b20295 b20296 b20297 b20298 b20299 b20300 b20301 b20302 b20303 b20304 b20305 b20306 b20307 b20308 b20309 b20310 b20311 b20312 b20313 b20314 b20315 b20316 Small seal script s10946 Transcribed ancient scripts L33441 L33442 L33443 L33444 L33445 L33446 L33447 L33448 L33449 L33450 L33451 L11338 L11339 L11340 L11341 L11342 L11343 L11344 L11345 L11346 L11347 L11348 L11349 L11350 L11351 L11352
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Pictogram (象形) – different theories exist:

• the head of a nail. The derivative 釘 is now used to represent this sense. This interpretation was formulated by Liu Xinyuan (劉心源), Lin Yiguang (林義光), and Wu Qichang (吳其昌).
• a head. The derivative 天 and 頂 is now used to represent this sense. Characters like 元 contains it as a semantic component. This is interpretation was formulated by Gao Hongjin (高鴻縉) and could be linked to the first interpretation ("head of a nail").
• a city wall. In ancient China, city walls were square-shaped. The derivative 成 and later 城 is now used to represent this sense. The character 正／征 contains it as a semantic component (but in 邑, the top component is 囗, not 丁). This interpretation was formulated by He Linyi (何琳儀).

See also 旦.

丁

1. the fourth of the ten heavenly stems
2. fourth; D

   丁烷  ―  dīngwán  ―  butane (fourth alkane)

3. robust; vigorous
4. male adult; man

   壯丁／壮丁  ―  zhuàngdīng  ―  able-bodied man

5. person; may specifically refer to member of a family

   人丁  ―  réndīng  ―  person

6. small cube

   肉丁  ―  ròudīng  ―  pork cubes

7. (literary) to encounter
8. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 出前一丁 (“Demae Itcho”), a type of instant noodles.

   撈丁／捞丁 [Cantonese]  ―  lou¹ ding¹   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

9. a surname

   丁肇中  ―  Dīng Zhàozhōng  ―  Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese-American physicist)

   • 「他總仍舊是偷。這一回，是自己發昏，竟偷到丁舉人家裡去了。他家的東西，偷得的麼？」 [MSC, trad.]
     「他总仍旧是偷。这一回，是自己发昏，竟偷到丁举人家里去了。他家的东西，偷得的么？」 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1919, Lu Xun, 孔乙己 (Kung I-chi)

     “tā zǒng réngjiù shì tōu. Zhè yī huí, shì zìjǐ fāhūn, jìng tōu dào Dīng jǔrén jiā lǐ qù le. Tā jiā de dōngxi, tōu de de me?”

     "He was stealing again. This time he was fool enough to steal from Mr. Ting, the provincial scholar! As if anybody could get away with that!"

• (Chinese heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁 (dīng), 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}