独体 (獨體)
dú tǐ
Pinyin
Definition
独体 (獨體)
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- autonomous body
- independent system
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一枝独秀
- 1 lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be in a league of one's own
- 3 outstanding
一体两面
- 1 lit. one body two sides (idiom)
- 2 fig. a situation with two sides to it
不成体统
- 1 not according with decorum (idiom); scandalous
- 2 bad form
- 3 unacceptable behavior
不识大体
- 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
- 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
五体投地
- 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
Sample Sentences
合体字的话,你可以先把简单的那部分当成“部首”。独体字的话,可能它自己就是一个部首。
With characters with multiple components, you treat the simple part as the radical. Characters with a single component might be radicals themselves.