dào

rice growing in field

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

grain

舀 sound component

  Sound component

yǎo

  

to scoop up

Evolution

稻 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
稻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稻 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
稻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dào

rice growing in field, rice plant; paddy; rice (Oryza sativa)

Most common words with 稻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

稻草

rice straw

水稻

rice

稻草人

scarecrow

paddy

稻田

paddy field

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]ˤuʔ

dawX

dào

rice, paddy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1464% of movies

2842nd most common character in movies

2529th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7A3B

Shuowen

“稻,稌也。从禾,舀聲。”


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