dào
rob
Simplified form of 盜. Depicts a gluttonous person drooling (㳄) for food inside of a dish (皿). The meaning later shifted to "steal", "rob", and "bandit".
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.6106% of movies
1330th most common character in movies
1619th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+76D7 |
Sources
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