dù
stop
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 土 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 杜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to stop | ||
to put an end to | ||
Dewey (name) | ||
cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鵑鳥|杜鹃鸟) | ||
Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.3614% of movies
1364th most common character in movies
1277th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+675C |
Shuowen | “杜，甘棠也。从木，土聲。” |
Sources
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