to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc) / to say repeatedly / to urge insistently / to ask repeatedly / to stick to a point / (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound

= + : In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Dorothy Gale (di) is celebrating the anniversary of the witche's death by repeatedly (叮) stinging (叮) a mandarin (口) with a nail (丁) and singing "叮咚 the witch is dead!"

叮 character breakdown

surname Ding
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 叮 as component

叮 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 叮

(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
to warn repeatedly / to urge / to exhort again and again
to warn / to urge / to exhort / to give instructions carefully and insistently
sting / bite (of insect)
repeatedly urging / imploring over and over again
to question closely / to make a detailed inquiry / to probe / to ask repeatedly
(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise / one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
(onom.) tinkling or jingling sound

Sentences with 叮

叮 currently does not appear in any sentence.