duó
take by force
Simplified form of 奪. Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 夺
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to seize | ||
to fight over | ||
to wrest | ||
to seize the crown | ||
to deprive |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 25.8690% of movies
1326th most common character in movies
1199th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+593A |
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