订 dìng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 丁 nail
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
订阅
dìngyuè
to subscribe
Characters in this word
阅 yuè
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 门 — gate, door, entrance, opening
Example phrases
- 越来越多读者选择订阅电子期刊，而不是逐期购买纸质杂志。 Yuè lái yuè duō dúzhě xuǎnzé dìngyuè diànzǐ qīkān, ér bú shì zhú qī gòumǎi zhǐzhì zázhì. More and more readers choose to subscribe to electronic journals rather than buying print magazines issue by issue.
- 我订阅了一份每周发送的科学简报。 Wǒ dìngyuè le yí fèn měi zhōu fāsòng de kēxué jiǎnbào. I subscribed to a weekly science newsletter.
- 爸爸订阅了一份当地的晨报。 Bàba dìngyuè le yí fèn dāngdì de chénbào. Dad subscribed to a local morning paper.
Related words
- 订 dìng to book; to order
- 预订 yùdìng to reserve
- 制订 zhìdìng to draw up; to make
- 签订 qiāndìng to sign; to conclude an agreement
- 订单 dìngdān order form, purchase order
- 订婚 dìnghūn to get engaged, to be betrothed
- 修订 xiūdìng to revise
- 订购 dìnggòu to order; to purchase by order
- 订立 dìnglì to conclude; to draw up; to enter into
- 阅读 yuèdú to read
- 阅览室 yuèlǎnshì reading room
- 阅览 yuèlǎn read; browse