táo
pottery
A mound 阝 of clay 匋; 匋 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 陶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pottery | ||
ceramics | ||
to be drunk with | ||
Lithuania | ||
to seep in |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8855% of movies
2150th most common character in movies
1601st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9676 |
Shuowen | “陶，再成丘也。在濟陰。从，匋聲。《夏書》曰：‘東至于陶丘。’陶丘有堯城，堯嘗所居，故堯號陶唐氏。” |
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