tū
suddenly
Depicts a dog (犬) suddenly running out of a cave (穴).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tū
suddenly, abruptly, unexpectedly; to dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge; to protrude; to break through; to rush out; sudden; Taiwan pr. [tú]
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-tʰˤut | dwot | tū | burst through |
*tʰˤut | thwot | tū | break through; suddenly |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 56.7195% of movies
821st most common character in movies
484th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7A81 |
Shuowen | “突，犬从穴中暫出也。从犬在穴中。一曰滑也。” |
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