tuǒ

oval-shaped

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

陏 sound component

  Sound component

suí

  

follow

Evolution

椭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
椭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
椭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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tuǒ

oval-shaped, elliptical, tubular; ellipse

Most common words with 椭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

椭圆

oval

椭圆形

oval

ellipse

椭球

ellipsoid (math)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3312th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+692D


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