tuó
steep bank
Phonosemantic compound. 它 represents the meaning and 阝 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 陀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
(phonetic) | ||
spinning top | ||
Amitabha Buddha | ||
Buddha (a person who has attained Buddhahood, or specifically Siddhartha Gautama) | ||
Gibraltar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8100% of movies
2756th most common character in movies
2143rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+9640 |
Shuowen | “阤,小崩也。从,也聲。” |
Sources
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