定

to settle, fix; certainly

No. 84 most used

How it's built

• 宀roof
• 疋upright

A way to remember it

Upright (疋) under a roof (宀): settled.

Words

• 一定

  yí dìng

  surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
• 肯定

  kěn dìng

  to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm
• 决定

  jué dìng

  to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (CL:个,项)
• 确定

  què dìng

  definite; certain; fixed
• 搞定

  gǎo dìng

  to fix; to settle; to wangle
• 说不定

  shuō bu dìng

  can't say for sure; maybe

Sentences

• 他们一定是美国人。

  tā men yí dìng shì měi guó rén

  They must be Americans.
• 你决定去日本了吗？

  nǐ jué dìng qù rì běn le ma

  Have you decided to go to Japan?
• 他们决定选他为总统。

  tā men jué dìng xuǎn tā wèi zǒng tǒng

  They decided to choose him to be president.
• 你定时间我就到那里。

  nǐ dìng shí jiān wǒ jiù dào nà li

  Just name a time and I'll be there.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.