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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- tao2
- English meanings
- guy, escape, egress, scarper, break away, shrink from, fly, take flight, evade, run away, evasion, flee, run, shirk, turn tail, bunk, lam, dodge
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Enclosed from the lower left structure
Enclosed from the lower left arrangement: outside 辶; inside 兆.
Meaning & sound clues
辶 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “walk”.
兆 is identified as the sound component (zhào). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 逃.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
measure word (general)
to fish out (from pocket)
peach
great waves
to wash
surging
used in 葡萄 (grape)
dun
pottery; cultivate
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 逃亡
- 逃生
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- 逃跑
- 逃避