dào
rob
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)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤaw(k)-s | dawH | dào | steal |
Statistics
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 | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+76DC |
Shuowen | “盜,私利物也。从,欲皿者。” |
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