敌 dí
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 舌 — tongue
- Made of
- 舌 tongue 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
敌视
díshì
to be hostile to; to regard with hostility
Characters in this word
视 shì
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 见 — to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- Made of
- 礻 spirit 见 to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 长期的误解使双方彼此敌视，任何合作提议都会被解读为陷阱。 Chángqī de wùjiě shǐ shuāngfāng bǐcǐ díshì, rènhé hézuò tíyì dōu huì bèi jiědú wéi xiànjǐng. Long-standing misunderstandings made the two sides hostile to each other, so any proposal for cooperation would be interpreted as a trap.
- 两家邻居多年来互相敌视，连话都不说。 Liǎng jiā línjū duōnián lái hùxiāng díshì, lián huà dōu bù shuō. The two neighbouring families have been hostile to each other for years and don't even speak.
- 新来的同事总觉得大家敌视他，其实只是不熟。 Xīn lái de tóngshì zǒng juéde dàjiā díshì tā, qíshí zhǐshì bù shú. The new colleague always feels everyone is hostile to him, when really they just don't know him yet.
Related words
- 敌人 dírén enemy
- 天敌 tiāndí natural enemy
- 无敌 wúdí invincible; without equal
- 电视 diànshì television, TV
- 电视机 diànshìjī TV set
- 重视 zhòngshì to value; to take seriously
- 电视剧 diànshìjù television series
- 电视台 diànshìtái television station
- 影视 yǐngshì film and television
- 忽视 hūshì to ignore
- 视频 shìpín video
- 视为 shìwéi to regard as