Chinese Character Wiki

燾

dào

shine

Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 壽 represents the sound.

Components
灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

壽 sound component

壽  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

燾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
燾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

焘 (燾) 

dào

shine, illuminate; cover, envelope; cover over; to envelope

Most common words with 燾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

张国焘

Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938

焘

cover over

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3213th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

焘

Unicode

U+71FE

Shuowen

“燾，溥覆照也。从火，壽聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License