lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow; fig. to make the final decision
trad. 一錘定音
Also written 一錘定音【yī chuí dìng yīn】
Characters in this word
4一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
锤
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hammer, to hammer into shape, weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance), to strike with a hammer
- Pinyin
- chuí
- Traditional
- 錘
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 27636 of 2500
定
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to fix; to set; to make definite, to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc), to congeal; to coagulate, (literary) definitely
- Pinyin
- dìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2734 of 2500
音
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sound, noise, note (of musical scale), tone, news, syllable, reading (phonetic value of a character)
- Pinyin
- yīn
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9526 of 2500