dòu
bean
Original meaning:
vessel with a neck
Pictograph of a stemmed bowl. Based on the original meaning "vessel with a neck". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[N.t]ˤo-s | duwH | dòu | bean |
*[d]ˤok-s | duwH | dòu | vessel with a neck |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 15.7617% of movies
1489th most common character in movies
1793rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8C46 |
Shuowen | “豆,古食肉器也。从口,象形。,古文豆。” |
Sources
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