脫 - Dong Chinese dictionary

tuō

take off

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 兌 represents the sound.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

兌 Sound component

duì

exchange

脫 and 兌 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.脫 /*lˤot-s/, /*lˤot/, /*mə-l̥ˤot/
兌 /*lˤot-s/, /*lˤot-s/

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

脱 (脫)

tuō

take off, peel off, strip; to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from

Most common words with 脫

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	脱	to shed
	摆脱	to break away from
	脱离	to break away from
	逃脱	to run away
	解脱	to untie

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lˤot-s	dwajH	tuō	easy, leisurely
*lˤot	dwat	tuō	remove outer covering
*mə-l̥ˤot	thwat	tuō	peel off

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 58.3854% of movies

748th most common character in movies

943rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Simplified	脱
Unicode	U+812B
Shuowen	“脫，消肉臞也。从肉，兌聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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