dǔ
block up
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dǔ
wall; stop, prevent; stop up; to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤaʔ | tuX | dǔ | a row or set of bells or musical stones |
*tˤaʔ | tuX | dǔ | measure of length of wall |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 11.8853% of movies
1958th most common character in movies
2284th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5835 |
Shuowen | “堵，垣也。五版為一堵。从土，者聲。，籀文从。” |
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