Chinese Character Wiki
豆

dòu

bean

Original meaning: 

vessel with a neck

Pictograph of a stemmed bowl. Based on the original meaning "vessel with a neck". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

豆 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
豆 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
豆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
豆 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
豆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

豆  

dòu

beans, peas; bean-shaped; bean; pea; CL:棵[kē],粒[lì]; sacrificial vessel

豆 (荳) 

dòu

variant of 豆[dòu]

Most common words with 豆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

豆

bean

土豆

potato

豆腐

tofu

大豆

soybean

豆子

bean

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (1 verified)

䖒 豌 豉 豇

Sound component in 7 characters (5 verified)

头 頭 短 逗 尌 豎 痘

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

登

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

头

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N.t]ˤo-s

duwH

dòu

bean

*[d]ˤok-s

duwH

dòu

vessel with a neck


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 15.7617% of movies

1489th most common character in movies

1793rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+8C46

Shuowen

“豆，古食肉器也。从口，象形。，古文豆。”


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