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
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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!"
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