Chinese Character Wiki

竇

dòu

surname

To buy someone off 賣; a nose-hole 穴

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

賣 meaning component

賣  Meaning component

mài

  

sell

Evolution

竇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
竇 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
竇 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
竇 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
竇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

窦 (竇) 

dòu

surname; hole, burrow; corrupt; hole; aperture; (anatomy) cavity; sinus

窦 (竇) 

Dòu

surname Dou

Most common words with 竇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

窦

hole

鼻窦炎

sinusitis

鼻窦

paranasal sinus

疑窦

suspicions

情窦初开

first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤok-s

duwH

dòu

hole; drain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2895th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

窦

Unicode

U+7AC7

Shuowen

“竇，空也。从穴，瀆省聲。”


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