dú
alone
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 蜀 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤok | duwk | dú | alone; only |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 62.5661% of movies
674th most common character in movies
627th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7368 |
Shuowen | “獨,犬相得而鬭也。从犬,蜀聲。羊為羣,犬為獨也。一曰北囂山有獨獸,如虎,白身,豕鬣,尾如馬。” |
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