Chinese Character Wiki
毒

dú

poison

Depicts a plant (屮) that is not good (毐), i.e. a poisonous plant.

Components
屮 meaning component

屮  Meaning component

chè

  

sprout

毐 meaning component

毐  Meaning component

ǎi, aǐ

  

person of reprehensible morals

Evolution

毒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毒  

dú

poison, venom; poisonous; poison; to poison; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics

Most common words with 毒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毒

poison

病毒

virus

毒品

drugs

吸毒

to take drugs

中毒

poisoning

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

纛

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

碡

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤuk

dowk

dú

poison (n.)

*m-[d]ˤuk-s

dowk

dú

to poison (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 47.1568% of movies

545th most common character in movies

947th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6BD2

Shuowen

“毒，厚也，害人之艸，往往而生。从屮，从毐。，古文毒，从刀、葍。”


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