tóu
throw
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 殳 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tóu
throw, cast, fling, pitch; jump; to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤo | duw | tóu | throw |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 48.2460% of movies
591st most common character in movies
516th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6295 |
Shuowen | “投，擿也。从手，从殳。” |
Sources
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