dú
ditch
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 賣 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.5560% of movies
2666th most common character in movies
3373rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7006 |
Shuowen | “瀆，溝也。从水，賣聲。一曰邑中溝。” |
Sources
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