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Traditional: 塗

tú

HSK 3.0 · 7–9

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

tú · tou4 (Jyutping)

  1. to apply (paint etc)
  2. to smear
  3. to daub
  4. to blot out
  5. to scribble
  6. to scrawl
  7. (literary) mud
  8. street
  9. variant of 途[tu2]
  10. surname Tu

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

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Meaning
surname; name of certain rivers
Radical
氵
Strokes
10
Components
⿰氵余
Cangjie
EOMD
Four-corner
3819.4

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