彻底
chè dǐ 4–3
thorough; thoroughly; complete
- Characters
- 2
- 彻 · 底
- Syllables
- 2
- chè dǐ
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,659
Part of speech: ad,a
Character by character
- 彻chè7 strokesHSK 4 traditional 徹penetrate, pervade; penetrating
- 底dǐ8 strokesHSK 3bottom, underneath, underside
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他的家每周彻底打扫一次。
Tā de jiā měi zhōu chè dǐ dǎ sǎo yī cì
His house is cleaned thoroughly once a week.
我们必须把它彻底检查一下。
Wǒ men bì xū bǎ tā chè dǐ jiǎn chá yī xià
We have to thoroughly investigate it.
春天，我想要彻底打扫房子。
Chūn tiān wǒ xiǎng yào chè dǐ dǎ sǎo fáng zi
I want to do spring cleaning.
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 彻底. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 到底dào dǐHSK 3
finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last
- 底dǐHSK 4
background; bottom; base; end (of the month, year etc); remnants; (math.) radix; base
- 底线dǐ xiànHSK 7
bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept; (sports) baseline; (sewing) under thread; spy; informer; plant
- 底下dǐ xiaHSK 3
the location below sth; afterwards
- 海底hǎi dǐHSK 6
seabed; seafloor; bottom of the ocean
- 底层dǐ céngHSK 7
ground or first floor; bottom (of a pile); lowest rung (of society)
- 年底nián dǐHSK 3
the end of the year; year-end
- 说到底shuō dào dǐHSK 7
in the final analysis; in the end
- 月底yuè dǐHSK 4
end of the month
- 贯彻guàn chèHSK 7
to implement; to put into practice; to carry out
- 垫底diàn dǐHSK 7
to put sth on the bottom; to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime; to lay the foundation; to come last in the rankings
- 透彻tòu chèHSK 7
penetrating; thorough; incisive
- 彻夜chè yèHSK 7
the whole night
- 谜底mí dǐHSK 7
answer to a riddle
- 归根到底guī gēn dào dǐHSK 7
after all; in the final analysis; ultimately
- 底子dǐ ziHSK 7
base; foundation; bottom
- 功底gōng dǐHSK 7
training in the basic skills; knowledge of the fundamentals
- 底蕴dǐ yùnHSK 7
inside information; concrete details