Chinese Character Wiki

禿

tū

bald

Grains of hair 禾 on a person's head 儿

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

儿 meaning component

儿  Meaning component

rén, ér, r

  

child

Evolution

禿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
禿 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
禿 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
禿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

秃 (禿) 

tū

bald, bare, stripped; bald; blunt

Most common words with 禿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秃

bald

秃头

baldness

秃顶

bald head

秃子

baldy

秃鹰

condor

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

頹

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

頹

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tʰ]ˤok

thuwk

tū

bald


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.6132% of movies

2435th most common character in movies

2521st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

秃

Unicode

U+79BF

Shuowen

“禿，無髮也。从人，上象禾粟之形，取其聲。王育說，蒼頡出見禿人伏禾中，因以制字。未知其審。”


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