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敵
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
敌
🇨🇳

enemy

HSK 10 N1
Human →Relations →Groups
dí
テキ
かたき、あだ、かな.う
적
Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 啻 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (敵)
啻 just+ 攵 tap =
敵 enemy
啻 Phonetic component
chì just
only, merely
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攵 Meaning component
pū tap
rap, tap
攵 is a component form of 攴.
Simplified (敌)
舌 tongue+ 攵 tap =
敌 enemy
舌 Simplified component
shé tongue
Shorthand for the 啻 component in the traditional character 敵.
攵 Meaning component
pū tap
rap, tap
攵 is a component form of 攴.
Notes
Similar Characters
膪 pork適 suitable (trad/jp)做 make务 affairs (simp)務 tasks (trad/jp)啓 enlighten (trad/jp)啟 enlighten (trad)孜 be as diligent徴 levy (trad/jp)徵 solicit (trad)收 receive (trad)改 alter攻 attack放 release政 politics敃 strong (6543)敄 to put forth effort故 deliberately效 effect (trad)敉 soothe
Historical Evolution
Bronze Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Bronze
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Clerical
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
敵
Regular
Modern
Chinese
敌 / 敵 [dí]
enemy; to be a match for; to rival; to resist; to withstand
Japanese
敵 、 仇 かたき 同音
  1. n-sufnoun rival; opponent; adversary; competitor; enemy (esp. one with which there is longstanding enmity); foe (usu. pronounced がたき when used as a suffix)
  2. noun revenge
  3. noun archaic spouse
敵 てき 同音

noun

  1. opponent; rival; adversary
  2. menace; danger; threat; enemy
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (2)
ある男を判断するには、その人の友人によるのと同様に敵によって判断するのがいいだろう。
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
彼は敵に不意打ちを食わせた。
He surprised his opponent.
CHINESE WORDS (75)
敌人 [dí​rén] #1,389
enemy
无敌 [wú​dí] #6,470
unequalled
敌军 [dí​jūn] #9,370
enemy troops
敌对 [dí​duì] #10,732
hostile
敌意 [dí​yì] #9,369
enmity
敌方 [dí​fāng] #12,798
enemy
敌机 [dí​jī] #13,970
enemy plane
杀敌 [shā​dí] #23,111
to attack the enemy
敌视 [dí​shì] #23,372
hostile
情敌 [qíng​dí] #25,031
rival in love
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JAPANESE WORDS (127)
⭐ 素敵 [すてき] #1,839
lovely
⭐ 叶う [かなう] #3,424
to come true (of a wish, prayer, etc.)
⭐ 敵意 [てきい] #4,637
hostility
⭐ 敵対 [てきたい] #5,508
hostility
⭐ 不敵 [ふてき] #5,715
daring
⭐ 匹敵 [ひってき] #7,071
to be a match for
⭐ 無敵 [むてき] #8,563
invincible
⭐ 強敵 [きょうてき] #9,007
formidable enemy
敵に回す [てきにまわす] #9,063
to make an enemy (of)
仇 [あだ] #9,378
foe
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KOREAN WORDS (19)
적의 #3,483
hostility
적지 #22,552
enemy territory
천하무적 #33,267
invincibility
강적
formidable enemy
난적
difficult enemy
무적
invincibility
숙적
old foe; old foe
외적
foreign enemy; enemy from outside
적개심
hostility
적국
enemy state
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