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Kanji Detail for 的 - "target, clear, aim"

  • Meaning

    的 means "target, clear, aim."

    1. Target - An aim; a goal.

    2. Clear - Obvious; distinct.

    3. -like - A suffix indicating similarity.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bull's eye; mark; target; object; adjective ending

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    possessive, adjectival suffix

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    aim, goal; of; possessive particle; -self suffix

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Bright. Manifest. (Doctrine of the Mean) "The way of the petty person is manifest but daily declines." | True. Such as 的確 (definite), 的真 (truly). | The target of archery. Hence what the will aims at is called 目的 (objective). | A colloquial descriptive particle. Such as saying 好的 (good one), 醜的 (ugly one), 大的 (big one), 小的 (small one). Pronounced like 底.
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