弟弟
dì di 4–5
younger brother
- Characters
- 2
- 弟 · 弟
- Syllables
- 2
- dì di
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,424
Part of speech: n
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
弟弟出去了。
Dì di chū qù le
My little brother has gone out.
他是我弟弟。
Tā shì wǒ dì di
He's my younger brother.
我以为他是我弟弟。
Wǒ yǐ wéi tā shì wǒ dì di
I thought he was my brother.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 弟弟. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 兄弟xiōng dìHSK 4
brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal
- 弟dìHSK 1
younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- 徒弟tú dìHSK 6
apprentice; disciple
- 弟子dì zǐHSK 7
disciple; follower
- 子弟zǐ dìHSK 7
child; the younger generation