递dì
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递
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Shuowen
递. The character combines 辶 (movement, walking) with 弟 (younger brother, also suggesting sequence and order). The original meaning was "to pass along in sequence"—the younger brother follows the elder in birth order, and objects passed from hand to hand move sequentially from one person to the next. The 辶 radical was added to emphasize the action of transmission, capturing how something physically moves from one to another in proper order.
Pinyin
dì· HSK 2