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What 挺 means

straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns

Pictophonetic: semantic 扌 (hand), phonetic 廷

Made of 扌 + 廷

Words with 挺

• 挺住tǐng zhùto stand firm; to stand one's ground (in the face of adversity or pain)
• 挺直tǐng zhíupright; erect; to straighten up (one's back etc); to hold erect
• 坚挺jiān tǐngfirm and upright; strong (of currency)
• 挺身而出tǐng shēn ér chūto step forward bravely
• 挺进tǐng jìnprogress; to advance
• 挺身tǐng shēnto straighten one's back
• 力挺lì tǐngto support; to back
• 打挺儿dǎ tǐng rto arch one's body and fling one's head back
• 挺好tǐng hǎovery good
• 挺立tǐng lìto stand erect; to stand upright
• 挺举tǐng jǔclean and jerk (weightlifting technique)
• 挺尸tǐng shī(lit.) to lie stiff like a corpse; (coll.) to sleep

挺 in a sentence

• 挺住。救护车马上就来了。

  tǐng zhù 。 jiù hù chē mǎ shàng jiù lái le 。

  Hang on. The ambulance will get here in just a little bit.

• 我听说挺好玩的。

  wǒ tīng shuō tǐng hǎo wán de 。

  I heard it was pretty exciting.

• 这件外套挺不错，但是太贵了。

  zhè jiàn wài tào tǐng bú cuò ， dàn shì tài guì le 。

  This coat is nice, but too expensive.

• 这件夹克挺合身的。

  zhè jiàn jiā kè tǐng hé shēn de 。

  This jacket sets well.

• 这家饭馆的咖哩挺好。

  zhè jiā fàn guǎn de kā lī tǐng hǎo 。

  The curry at this restaurant is good.

Characters that sound like 挺

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