tuó

a camel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

它 sound component

  Sound component

  

it

Evolution

駝 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
駝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tuó

a camel; humpbacked; to carry on the back; hump or hunchbacked; camel

Most common words with 駝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骆驼

camel

camel

驼背

hunchbacked

驼鹿

elk

驼色

light tan (color)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8992% of movies

2479th most common character in movies

2638th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+99DD


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