Chinese Character Wiki
圖

tú

map

Depicts a map of city boundaries (囗) and places outside the city boundaries (啚).

Components
囗 iconic component

囗  Iconic component

wéi

  

surround

Depicts walls of a city.

啚 iconic component

啚  Iconic component

bǐ

  

remote place

Depicts a granary outside city walls.

Evolution

圖 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
圖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

图 (圖) 

tú

diagram; chart, map, picture; picture; drawing; chart; map; CL:張|张[zhāng]; to plan; to scheme; to attempt; to pursue; to seek

Most common words with 圖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

图

diagram

试图

to attempt

图片

image

地图

map

图书馆

library

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤa

du

tú

consider


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 60.3876% of movies

610th most common character in movies

476th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

图

Unicode

U+5716

Shuowen

“圖，畫計難也。从口，从啚。啚，難意也。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License