底 (dǐ) means Bottom (background - end - records). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
箱子 底 下有一封信。
Xiāngzi dǐxia yǒu yì fēng xìn.
There is a letter at the bottom of the box.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 底
这个月 底 我要出差。
Zhège yuèdǐ wǒ yào chū chāi.
At the end of this month I have a business trip.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 底
你到 底 想说什么？
Nǐ dàodǐ xiǎng shuō shénme?
What on earth do you want to say?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 到底
这件事到 底 是谁做的？
Zhè jiàn shì dàodǐ shì shéi zuò de?
Who on earth did this?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 到底
Words that contain 底
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 底
How is 底 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 底 (dǐ, "Bottom (background - end - records)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 底 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 底 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 底 an HSK word?
Yes — 底 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 底?
The dictionary page for 底 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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