dào
grieve
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 卓 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 悼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
mourning | ||
to grieve | ||
a memorial service | ||
to mourn | ||
to mourn |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤawk-s | dawH | dào | sad; pity |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.5811% of movies
2476th most common character in movies
2963rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+60BC |
Shuowen | “悼，懼也。陳楚謂懼曰悼。从心，卓聲。” |
Sources
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