duǒ
flower
Original meaning:
drooping ear of a grain
Embellishment of the character 禾 (grain), with a distinguishing short stroke on the ear of the millet plant to indicate the drooping ear. Based on the original meaning "drooping ear of a grain". The meaning later shifted to "flower" and "earlobe".
Components
丿 Distinguishing component
piě
line
Here used as a distinguishing short stroke to indicate the drooping ear of a millet plant.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 17.2994% of movies
1557th most common character in movies
1571st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+6735 |
Shuowen | “朵,樹木垂朵朵也。从木,象形。此與采同意。” |
Sources
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