的

dī
#1 most
frequent character
a taxi, a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1shi4])

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

的 has 白 white as the meaning part and 勺 sháo as the sound part; it first meant a bright white look. From there dì came to mean a target's center, while dí means true. Read de, it was borrowed for its sound as a grammatical particle; read dī, it is a Beijing word for taxi.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

的dí
really and truly
的dì
(bound form) bull's-eye, target
HSK 1
的de
of

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