陡 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

dǒu

steep

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 走 represents the sound.

Components

阝 Meaning component

fù

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

走 Sound component

zǒu

walk

Definitions

dǒu

steep, sloping; abruptly, sudden; steep; precipitous; abrubtly; suddenly; unexpectedly

Most common words with 陡

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2362nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+9661

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