dǎo
pray
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 寿 represents the sound. Simplified form of 禱.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 祷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to pray | ||
to pray | ||
prayer | ||
litany (text of a prayer) | ||
silent prayer |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 20.1506% of movies
1390th most common character in movies
2483rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7977 |
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