定定

Chinese

		to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; 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

  (Hailu, HRS): tin^˖ tin^˖

• Southern Min (Hokkien, 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–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Yale: dihng dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² tɪŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thin-thin
    • Hakka Romanization System: tin tin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tin⁴ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰin⁵⁵ tʰin⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: tin^˖ tin^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰin³³ tʰin³³/
• Southern Min
  • (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. (Southern Min) often
3. (Cantonese, Southern Min) 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

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
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	常
	Taiwan	常常
	Harbin	時不見兒, 時不當, 時不當兒, 時不常, 時不常兒, 時不時
	Singapore	常常
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	常常, 常, 時常
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	常常, 常, 時常
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	時常, 常常, 隨時, 時不時
	Wuhan	帶常, 時常
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	常
	Hefei	常
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時, 時不時
	Hong Kong	成日, 經常, 時時, 好多時, 好多時候, 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, 時不時
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 經常
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時
	Hong Kong	長日
Huizhou	Jixi	三不時, 時不時
Jin	Taiyuan	常常, 時常, 時不時
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	稠稠, 稠, 盡稠
Southern Min	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
	Leizhou	長世, 長常
Wu	Shanghai	常樁, 常常, 經常
	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, 時不時
	Shuangfeng	練常, 常常

• (slowly): 慢慢 (mànmàn); (Hakka) 定定仔; (Hokkien) 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

Particle

定定

1. (Hakka, at the end of a phrase) that's all; nothing more

Synonyms

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• 云爾 (yún'ěr) (literary)
• 但定 (nā-tiāⁿ) (Min Nan)
• 爾爾／尔尔 (niā-niā) (Hokkien)
• 罷了／罢了
• 而已 (éryǐ)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 而已 (“(sentence-final particle) just; simply”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		而已, 云爾
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		而已, 罷了
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	罷了
	Taiwan	而已
	Malaysia	罷了
	Singapore	而已
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	罷了
Cantonese	Guangzhou	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Hong Kong	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	啫, 之嘛
	Taishan	之嘛, 咋
	Kaiping (Chikan)	之嘛, 逸, 咿
	Enping (Niujiang)	之嘛, 咋
	Singapore (Guangfu)	啫, 之嘛
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	定定
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	定定
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	定定, 定
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	忒等
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	定定
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	定
Southern Min	Xiamen	爾爾, 爾
	Quanzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Zhangzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Tainan	爾爾
	Penang (Hokkien)	爾
	Singapore (Hokkien)	爾, 爾爾
	Jieyang	定