Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tǔ
soil, earth; items made of earth
dù
chǎ
tú
Tǔ
Tu (ethnic group); surname Tu
tǔ
earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[bāyīn]
mǔ
mù
méi
mǔ
mother; female elders; female
mú
wǔ
wú
mǔ
mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5776 |
Shuowen | “坶，朝歌南七十里地。《周書》：‘武王與射戰于坶野。’从土，母聲。” |
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