HSK 5 · Society

敌人 dírén “enemy” in Chinese

Traditional 敵人

What 敌人 means

  1. enemy

Measure word 个 gè · 一个敌人 yí ge dírén

How to say 敌人

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale敌dí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising

敌人 in a sentence

  1. 她没有敌人。

    Tā méiyǒu dírén.

    She has no enemies.

    Sentence #343461 from Tatoeba

  2. 敌人的敌人是朋友。

    Dírén de dírén shì péngyou.

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

    Sentence #8853761 from Tatoeba

  3. 我知道谁是我的敌人。

    Wǒ zhīdao shéi shì wǒ de dírén.

    I know who my enemy is.

    Sentence #805726 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 敌人 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 敌 (dí) with each of its parts in a different colour
敌díenemy
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 啇 () hints at the sound. Compare it with dí.

The character 人 (rén) drawn as one shape
人rénperson; people

人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.

How to write 敌人

敌 10 strokes · 人 2 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

敌人 (dírén) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 敌人 (dírén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 敌人

Words with 敌

敌视díshì · to be hostile to

Words with 人

人rén · person家人jiārén · family member男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest有人yǒurén · someone人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person

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FAQs

敌人 (dírén) means “enemy”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it dírén: dí with a 2nd tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 敌人 is written 敵人. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one enemy is 一个敌人 (yí ge dírén).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type diren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 敌人 from the suggestions. Typing diren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
敌人 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.