dú, dòu
read
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 𧸇 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.lˤok | duwk | dú | read (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 46.6923% of movies
817th most common character in movies
752nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B80 |
Shuowen | “讀,誦書也。从言,賣聲。” |
Sources
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