dào
rice growing in field
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l]ˤuʔ | dawX | dào | rice, paddy |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1464% of movies
2842nd most common character in movies
2529th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7A3B |
Shuowen | “稻，稌也。从禾，舀聲。” |
Sources
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