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惰

duò

HSK 6 Character

What 惰 means

1. lazy

Example sentences

• 你迟早要后悔懒惰。
  Sooner or later, you will regret your idleness.
• 她骂她的儿子懒惰。
  She scolded her son for being lazy.
• 他骂他的儿子懒惰。
  He scolded his son for being lazy.
• 他对懒惰的人很严厉。
  Tā duì lǎnduò de rén hěn yánlì.
  He is very hard on lazy people.
• 弗雷德是一个懒惰的家伙。
  Fred is a lazy fellow.
• 汤姆再也不是懒惰的孩子了。
  Tāngmǔ zàiyě bù shì lǎnduò de háizi le.
  Tom is no longer a lazy child.

Words starting with 惰

• 惰性duò xìnginert (chemistry); apathy; inertia
• 惰性气体duò xìng qì tǐ(chemistry) inert gas (esp. a noble gas)

Words containing 惰

• 懒惰lǎn duòidle; lazy
• 偷惰tōu duòto skive off work; to be lazy
• 娇惰jiāo duòpampered and lazy; indolent; without energy
• 懈惰xiè duòslack; idle
• 游惰yóu duòto laze about without doing anything productive
• 怠惰dài duòidleness
• 避其锐气，击其惰归bì qí ruì qì , jī qí duò guīavoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom)

Characters built on 月

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

• 脱tuōto shed; to take off; to escape
• 朔shuòbeginning; first day of lunar month; north
• 蠃luǒused in 蜾蠃
• 胙zuòto grant or bestow; sacrificial flesh offered to the gods (old); blessing
• 脞cuǒchopped meat; trifles

Characters that look like 惰

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

• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 暗àndark; to turn dark; secret; hidden
• 晴qíngclear; fine (weather)
• 猾huásly
• 帷wéicurtain; screen
• 隋Suíthe Sui dynasty (581–617 AD); surname Sui

Sounds the same

Read duò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 堕to fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
• 跺to stamp one's feet
• 剁to chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)
• 舵helm; rudder
• 驮load carried by a pack animal
• 垛pile
• 嶞mountain peak
• 柮wood scraps
• 饳used in 馉饳
• 刴variant of 剁
• 媠old variant of 惰