duó
take by force
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.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 奪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to seize | ||
to fight over | ||
to wrest | ||
to seize the crown | ||
to deprive |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.lˤot | dwat | duó | seize |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.8690% of movies
1326th most common character in movies
1199th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+596A |
Shuowen | “，手持隹失之也。从又，从。” |
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