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吐

tǔ, tù

vomit

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 土 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

土 sound component

土  Sound component

tǔ

  

earth

Evolution

吐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

吐  

tǔ

vomit, spew out, cough up; to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances)

吐  

tù

to vomit; to throw up

Most common words with 吐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吐

to spit

呕吐

to vomit

吐露

to tell

谈吐

style of conversation

吐蕃

also pr. [Tǔ​fān]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤaʔ

thuX

tǔ

eject from mouth, spit

*tʰˤaʔ-s

thuH

tù

vomit


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 22.8896% of movies

1354th most common character in movies

1653rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5410

Shuowen

“吐，寫也。从口，土聲。”


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