dǎo

pray

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 寿 represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
礻 meaning component

  Meaning component

shì

  

show

is a component form of .

寿 sound component

寿  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

祷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
祷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
祷 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
祷 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

dǎo

pray; entreat, beg, plead; prayer; supplication

Most common words with 祷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

祈祷

to pray

祷告

to pray

prayer

祷文

litany (text of a prayer)

默祷

silent prayer

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.1506% of movies

1390th most common character in movies

2483rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+7977


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