dào

grieve

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

卓 sound component

  Sound component

zhuōzhuó

  

profound

Evolution

悼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
悼 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
悼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
悼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dào

grieve, mourn, lament; grieved; to mourn; to lament

Most common words with 悼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

哀悼

mourning

悼念

to grieve

追悼会

a memorial service

追悼

to mourn

to mourn

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤawk-s

dawH

dào

sad; pity


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5811% of movies

2476th most common character in movies

2963rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+60BC

Shuowen

“悼,懼也。陳楚謂懼曰悼。从心,卓聲。”


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