tuó
a lump
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 它 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8100% of movies
2950th most common character in movies
5617th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5768 |
Shuowen | “地，元气初分，輕、清、陽為天；重、濁、陰為地。萬物所陳列也。从土，也聲。墬，籀文地从。” |
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