tǎo
to discuss
Original meaning:
manage, govern
Simplified form of 討. Depicts using speech (言) and one's hands (寸) to manage or govern. The meaning later shifted to "discuss" and "ask for".
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 66.5065% of movies
632nd most common character in movies
833rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8BA8 |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.193-194
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