dù
jealous
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 户 represents the sound. Simplified form of 妬.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤak-s | tuH | dù | jealous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.9608% of movies
1733rd most common character in movies
2598th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5992 |
Shuowen | “妒，婦妒夫也。从女，戶聲。” |
Sources
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