坨

tuó

Rank #5632

Definitions

tuó mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits); (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子|饺子[jiǎo zi] etc) to stick together; to form a clump

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 它 represents the sound.

Semantic: 土 Phonetic: 它

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Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

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Related Characters

Component: 土

Component: 它

Components

土它

坨