jealous

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

户 sound component

  Sound component

  

door

Evolution

妒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
妒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jealous, envious; to envy (success, talent); jealous

() 

variant of [dù]

Most common words with 妒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

嫉妒

to envy

妒忌

envy

jealous

妒嫉

envy

忌妒

to envy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤak-s

tuH

jealous


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.9608% of movies

1733rd most common character in movies

2598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5992

Shuowen

“妒,婦妒夫也。从女,戶聲。”


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