堤

dike / Taiwan pr. [ti2]

variant of 堤[di1]

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

embankment / bank / levee

dam / dike

(of a watercourse) to breach its dike / (of dikes) to collapse

dike / embankment / levee

levee / dyke / seawall

lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence

an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / huge damage may result from a moment's negligence

tiramisu (loanword)

promenade

Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many tourists

see 千里之堤，潰於蟻穴|千里之堤，溃于蚁穴[qian1 li3 zhi1 di1 , kui4 yu2 yi3 xue2]