dù, dǔ
belly
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 土 represents the sound.
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤaʔ | tuX | dǔ | belly, stomach |
*m-tˤaʔ | duX | dù | belly |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 18.3405% of movies
1621st most common character in movies
1800th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+809A |
Sources
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