牒

dié
#4,111 most
frequent character
(official) document, dispatch

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

牒 has 片 a piece of wood as its meaning part and 枼 yè for sound. It first meant wooden strips used for writing long ago. This grew to an official document or dispatch.

Ask DeepSeek

Homophones

叠dié
to stack, to fold

Your word lists

Sign in to add this word to your private lists.