Chinese Character Wiki
逃

táo

escape

Originally written as 兆, a pictograph of two people escaping a flood. The 辶 (walk) component was added later to clarify the meaning.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

兆 sound,iconic component

兆  Sound Iconic component

zhào

  

omen

Evolution

逃 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
逃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
逃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
逃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

逃  

táo

escape, flee; abscond, dodge; to escape; to run away; to flee

Most common words with 逃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

逃

to escape

逃跑

to run away

逃避

to escape

逃走

to escape

逃离

to run out

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤaw

daw

táo

flee


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 53.3397% of movies

688th most common character in movies

996th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+9003

Shuowen

“逃，亡也。从辵，兆聲。”


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