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咄

duō

Character

What 咄 means

1. old(interjection expressing disapproval, commiseration etc) tut!
2. Taiwan pr. duò

Example sentences

• 他是个咄咄逼人的的人。
  Tā shì gè duōduōbīrén de de rén.
  He is an aggressive person.
• 玛丽有些咄咄逼人，不是吗？
  Mǎlì yǒuxiē duōduōbīrén, bù shì ma?
  Mary is very aggressive, isn't she?

Words starting with 咄

• 咄咄逼人duō duō bī rénoverbearing; forceful; aggressive
• 咄咄duō duōto cluck one's tongue; tut-tut
• 咄咄怪事duō duō guài shì(idiom) extraordinary occurrence; bizarre event
• 咄咄称奇duō duō chēng qíto cluck one's tongue in wonder

Words containing 咄

• 阿史那骨咄禄Ā shǐ nà Gǔ duō lùAshina Qutlugh, personal name of 颉跌利施可汗
• 叱咄chì duōto reprimand; to berate

Characters built on 出

These share the phonetic component 出 (chū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 拙zhuōawkward; clumsy; dull
• 茁zhuóto display vigorous, new growth; to sprout

Characters that look like 咄

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 响xiǎngecho; sound; noise
• 咱zánI or me; we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 咕gū(onomatopoeia) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
• 吡bǐused as phonetic bi- or pi-
• 呣ḿinterjection expressing a question

Sounds the same

Read duō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 多many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd
• 哆used in 哆嗦
• 掇to pick up; to collect; to gather up
• 裰to mend clothes
• 㙍(used in place names)
• 剟to prick; to cut blocks, to engrave
• 嚉old variant of 咄