Chinese Character Wiki

沱

tuó

rivers

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

它 sound component

它  Sound component

tā

  

it

Evolution

沱 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
沱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沱  

tuó

rivers, streams, waterways; flow; tearful; to branch (of river)

Most common words with 沱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沱

tearful

滂沱

pouring

滂沱大雨

torrents of rain (idiom)

沱茶

caked tea

涕泗滂沱

a flood of tears and mucus

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤaj

da

tuó

flow (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4382nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CB1

Shuowen

“沱，江別流也，出山東，別為沱。从水，它聲。”


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