tuóduò

carry on back

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

大 sound component

  Sound component

dài

  

big

Evolution

馱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
馱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tuó

carry on back; to carry on one's back

() 

duò

load carried by a pack animal

Most common words with 馱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to carry on one's back

驮马

pack horse

驮子

pack animal's load

驮篓

pannier

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+99B1

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“馱,負物也。从馬,大聲。”


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