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Translation

dì = di + Ø4: (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just

Mnemonic

Dorothy Gale (di) accomplished an awesome result with her composite bow (弓) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4): She shot a banana (丿) onto a dinosaur bone (丨) so the banana was split in half, and then fired a bamboo stick (⺮) into the banana (丿) so the banana was split in half as well. Dorothy is number one (第) with the bow!

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第 character breakdown

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
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Characters with 第 as component

第 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 第

(American) Indian / native American / indigenous peoples of the Americas
first under heaven / number one in the country
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
Burgundy (Bourgogne), kingdom during medieval period, now region of France
ranked number one in the world / the world's first
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
top notch / highest quality
to pass an imperial examination
grade (i.e. quality) / rank
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式[zhu4 yin1 yi1 shi4]

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