叮咛

Traditional (Taiwan): 叮嚀

dīngníng ㄉㄧㄥ ㄋㄧㄥˊ

    • to warn
    • to urge
    • to exhort
    • to give instructions carefully and insistently

Character by character

Classifiers (measure words)

Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms 近义词

  • 叮嘱 dīngzhǔ
    • 耐心叮嘱 instruct patiently
    • 一再叮嘱 urge again and again
  • 嘱咐 zhǔfu
    • 嘱咐儿女 instruct one's children
    • 反复嘱咐 tell repeatedly

Telling them apart

叮咛 stresses repeating something to make sure the listener pays attention, and is typically used by adults to children or superiors to subordinates. 嘱咐 stresses telling someone carefully what to watch out for and can also be used between equals. 叮嘱 can be used as 叮咛 is, and can also be said of oneself, as a reminder to oneself.

Other words read dīngníng

In the same tone

Near homophones of dingning

  • 丁玲 dīnglíng Ding Ling (1904–1986), Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River" 太阳照在桑干河上 tàiyángzhàozàisānggānhéshàng, persecuted in the 1950s as "anti-Party"
  • 叮铃 dīnglíng jingle
  • 玎玲 dīnglíng ding-a-ling

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