dú
poison
Depicts a plant (屮) that is not good (毐), i.e. a poisonous plant.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤuk | dowk | dú | poison (n.) |
*m-[d]ˤuk-s | dowk | dú | to poison (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 47.1568% of movies
545th most common character in movies
947th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6BD2 |
Shuowen | “毒，厚也，害人之艸，往往而生。从屮，从毐。，古文毒，从刀、葍。” |
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