tāo
large waves
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 寿 represents the sound. Simplified form of 濤.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 涛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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big wave | ||
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CPC 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013 | ||
great waves | ||
perilous situation | ||
ocean wave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.8329% of movies
3255th most common character in movies
2054th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6D9B |
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