Chinese symbol for “dish”
碟
dié
dish; plate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dish is 碟 (dié), defined as: dish; plate.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “dish”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 盘 (盤) | pán | tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices |
| 菜色 | cài sè | dish; lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) |
| 菜式 | cài shì | dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe) |
| 皿 | mǐn | (bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container; radical no. 108 |
| 菜肴 (菜餚) | cài yáo | vegetable and meat dishes; dish |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 碟.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞碟 (飛碟) | fēi dié | flying saucer; frisbee |
| 光碟 | guāng dié | optical disc; compact disc |
| 碟子 | dié zi | saucer; small dish |
| 硬碟 | yìng dié | (Tw) hard disk; hard drive |
| 影碟 | yǐng dié | DVD; measure word: 片 (piàn), 张 (zhāng) |
| 碟片 | dié piàn | disc; 张 (zhāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dish”.
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.