duó

take by force

Depicts a hand () snatching a bird (). The top component was originally (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either or .

Components
大 sound component

  Sound component

dài

  

big

隹 iconic component

  Iconic component

zhuī

  

bird

寸 iconic component

  Iconic component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Evolution

奪 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奪 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
奪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

duó

take by force, rob, snatch; to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose

Most common words with 奪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to seize

争夺

to fight over

夺得

to wrest

夺冠

to seize the crown

剥夺

to deprive

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.lˤot

dwat

duó

seize


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.8690% of movies

1326th most common character in movies

1199th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+596A

Shuowen

“,手持隹失之也。从又,从。”


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