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Pronunciation: dĭ
Meaning: to resist, to offset/balance, to prop up
Etymology:
Hand 手 (altered to 扌)　on roots 氐 (also phonetic). (associative/phono-semantic compound).

Traditional character: 抵 (roughly the same)

Found in:
Du Fu's 春望

Word of the day on: 04.29.08

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