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屠

tú

butcher

Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components
尸 meaning component

尸  Meaning component

shī

  

sitting person

者 sound component

者  Sound component

zhě

  

one who...

Evolution

屠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

屠  

tú

butcher, slaughter, massacre; to slaughter (animals for food); to massacre

屠  

Tú

surname Tu

Most common words with 屠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

屠杀

to massacre

屠

to massacre

大屠杀

massacre

屠夫

butcher

屠宰

to slaughter

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤa

du

tú

butcher (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.0501% of movies

1942nd most common character in movies

2171st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5C60

Shuowen

“屠，刳也。从尸，者聲。”


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