dòu
surname
To buy someone off 賣; a nose-hole 穴
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 竇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hole | ||
sinusitis | ||
paranasal sinus | ||
suspicions | ||
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤok-s | duwH | dòu | hole; drain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2895th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7AC7 |
Shuowen | “竇,空也。从穴,瀆省聲。” |
Sources
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