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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

对勾

Pronunciation / Transliteration: duìgōu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tick/tɪk/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1420 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"在方框里打个对勾。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A mark (✓) used for checking off an item or indicating that something is correct.

    "Put a tick next to the correct answer."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'ticken', likely of imitative origin representing a small, light, recurring click. Historically related to Middle Dutch 'ticken' and German 'zacken', evolving from its early usage as the sound of a clock to a mark denoting correctness.

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