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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- dou4
- English meanings
- to stay, to stop, to tease (play with), amusing, short pause in reading aloud, equivalent to comma (also written 讀|读[dou4])
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Enclosed from the lower left structure
Enclosed from the lower left arrangement: outside 辶; inside 豆.
Meaning & sound clues
辶 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “walk”.
豆 is identified as the sound component (dòu). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 逗.
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.
bag
to tremble
peck
bean
all
steep
fight; struggle
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