dào

shine

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

Components
灬 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāohuǒ

  

fire

is a component form of .

寿 sound component

寿  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

焘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
焘 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
焘 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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dào

shine, illuminate; cover, envelope; cover over; to envelope

Most common words with 焘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

张国焘

Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938

cover over

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3213th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+7118


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