堤 坝

dībà

“Dam” in Chinese is 堤坝 (dībà).

Meaning

dam
dike

Example

堤坝保护了城市免受洪灾。

The bank secured the city from a flood.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

dīHSK 7-912 strokesdike bàHSK 7-97 strokes(used in place names) plain; flatland

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