Chinese symbol for “battlements”
堞
dié
battlements
The closest CC-CEDICT match for battlements is 堞 (dié), defined as: battlements.
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Characters and stroke order
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.