dǔ
bet, gamble
Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賭.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.tˤaʔ | tuX | dǔ | wager |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 34.4546% of movies
947th most common character in movies
2037th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D4C |
Sources
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