dú
calf
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 犢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
calf | ||
calf | ||
calf | ||
fig. the young are fearless | ||
(of a woman) to be fiercely protective of one's children |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤok | duwk | dú | calf |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3915th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+72A2 |
Shuowen | “犢,牛子也。从牛,瀆省聲。” |
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