dǎo
pray
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 壽 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 禱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to pray | ||
to pray | ||
prayer | ||
litany (text of a prayer) | ||
silent prayer |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]ˤuʔ | tawX | dǎo | pray |
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 | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+79B1 |
Shuowen | “禱，告事求福也。从示，壽聲。，禱或省。，籀文禱。” |
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