tuó

slip

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

foot

它 sound component

  Sound component

  

it

Evolution

跎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
跎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tuó

slip, stumble, falter; vacillate; to stumble; to waste time

Most common words with 跎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹉跎

(literary) to slip

to stumble

日月蹉跎

the years have slipped by

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5254th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8DCE

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“跎,蹉跎也。从足,它聲。”


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