About
The character "贴" originates from its traditional form "貼", which is composed of the semantic component "貝", representing shell currency and valuables, and the phonetic component "占". This structure initially conveyed meanings associated with financial transactions, specifically to pawn or mortgage an item of value. Over time, the meaning extended from the idea of providing something of value as security to the more general act of adding or affixing one thing to another, leading to its common modern senses of "to paste", "to stick", or "to attach". The contemporary simplified form "贴" retains the phonetic component "占" but replaces the semantic component "貝" with "贝", a simplified form of the same radical, thus maintaining the character's conceptual link to value, which persists in derived meanings such as "subsidy" or "allowance".
Etymology Hide
Example Sentences Hide
我在墙上贴海报
她贴心地帮我拿行李
妈妈补贴了我的生活费
请把邮票贴在信封上
这个贴纸很漂亮我想买
公司为员工提供了交通补贴
他贴切地描述了当时的场景
为了环保我们应该减少使用贴膜产品