定定

定定

Chinese

		to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilise; to order	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilise; to order
simp. and trad. (定定)		定	定

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìngdìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶ ding⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thin-thin
• Min Nan (POJ): tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìngdìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìngdìng
    • Wade–Giles: ting⁴-ting⁴
    • Yale: dìng-dìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqdinq
    • Palladius: диндин (dindin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tiŋ⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Yale: dihng dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² tɪŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thin-thin
    • Hakka Romanization System: tin tin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tin⁴ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰin⁵⁵ tʰin⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tiānn-tiānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dviaxdvia
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiã²²⁻²¹ tiã²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiã⁴¹⁻²² tiã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiã²²⁻²¹ tiã²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiã³³⁻¹¹ tiã³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiã³³⁻²¹ tiã³³/

Adverb

定定

1. surely; certainly
2. (Min Nan) often
3. (Cantonese, Min Nan) calmly; steadily

   你坐定定喺度，唔好周圍走。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   你坐定定喺度，唔好周围走。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ co⁵ ding⁶ ding⁶ hai² dou⁶, m⁴ hou² zau¹ wai⁴ zau². [Jyutping]

   Sit here calmly without running around.

4. (Hakka) slowly
5. (Hakka) that's all; nothing more

Synonyms

• (surely): 一定 (yīdìng)
• (often):

Dialectal synonyms of 常常 (“often; frequently”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		經常, 時常, 常常, 時時, 往往, 每每
Mandarin	Beijing	常
	Taiwan	常常
	Jinan	常常, 常, 時常
	Xi'an	常常, 常, 時常
	Wuhan	帶常, 時常
	Chengdu	時常, 常常, 隨時
	Yangzhou	常
	Hefei	常
	Singapore	常常
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時
	Hong Kong	成日, 經常, 時時, 周時, 周不時
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	經常
	Yangjiang	周時
Gan	Nanchang	千常, 時常
Hakka	Meixian	輒常, 長時, 時常
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時
	Hong Kong	長日
Huizhou	Jixi	三不時
Jin	Taiyuan	常常, 時常
Min Dong	Fuzhou	稠稠, 稠, 盡稠
Min Nan	Xiamen	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Quanzhou	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時
	Zhangzhou	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Tainan	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 捷捷, 沓沓, 常在, 往往
	Manila (Hokkien)	定定, 常常, 四常, 不時
	Chaozhou	長時, 惦惦
	Shantou	經常, 時常, 時時, 惦惦
	Bangkok (Teochew)	惦惦
Wu	Shanghai	三不時
	Shanghai (Chongming)	千常
	Suzhou	時常, 常時, 常樁
	Ningbo	老老, 老長 rare, 長常 rare, 長時 rare
	Wenzhou	清清, 常期
Xiang	Changsha	練常, 打常, 扯常, 扯常子
	Shuangfeng	練常, 常常

• (slowly): 慢慢 (mànmàn); (Hakka) 定定仔; (Min Nan) 寬寬仔／宽宽仔, 勻勻仔／匀匀仔, 勻勻仔是／匀匀仔是, 沓沓仔, 聊聊仔, 慢慢仔
• (that's all):

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但定 (nā-tiāⁿ) (Min Nan) 而已 (éryǐ) 云爾／云尔 (yún'ěr) (literary)

爾爾／尔尔 (niā-niā) (Min Nan) 罷了／罢了 (bàliǎo)