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朵

duǒ

HSK 4 Character

What 朵 means

1. flower
2. earlobe
3. fig. item on both sides
4. classifier for flowers, clouds etc

Other readings

朵 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• duǒvariant of {朵|duǒ}

Example sentences

• 我耳朵痒。
  I have an itch in my ear.
• 你有两朵花。
  You have two flowers.
• 我卖两朵花。
  I sell two flowers.
• 我长耳朵了。
  I have ears, you know.
• 这是朵人造花。
  It's an artificial flower.
• 我们用耳朵听。
  We hear with our ears.

Words starting with 朵

• 朵颐duǒ yí(literary) to munch

Words containing 朵

• 耳朵ěr duoear; handle (on a cup)
• 花朵huā duǒflower
• 云朵yún duǒa cloud
• 骨朵gǔ duǒclub (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip); (flower) bud
• 玛奇朵mǎ qí duǒmacchiato (loanword); latte macchiato (coffee)
• 耳朵软ěr duo ruǎncredulous
• 花骨朵huā gū duo(colloquial) flower bud
• 软耳朵ruǎn ěr duocredulous person; credulous
• 扇风耳朵shān fēng ěr duoprotruding ears
• 耳朵眼儿ěr duo yǎn rearhole; ear piercing hole; earring hole
• 潘朵拉Pān duǒ lāPandora
• 咬耳朵yǎo ěr duo(colloquial) to whisper in sb's ear
• 咬着耳朵yǎo zhe ěr duowhispering in sb's ear
• 竖起耳朵shù qǐ ěr duoto prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth
• 耙耳朵pā ěr duo(dialect) henpecked; to be under one's wife's thumb
• 大快朵颐dà kuài duǒ yí(idiom) to eat with great relish; to feast on (sth)
• 克利斯朵夫Kè lì sī duǒ fūChristopher (name)
• 刚朵拉gāng duǒ lāsee 贡多拉

Characters that look like 朵

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

• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 岛dǎoisland
• 束shùto bind; bunch; bundle
• 杂zámixed; miscellaneous; various
• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余
• 汞gǒngmercury (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read duǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 躲to hide; to dodge; to avoid
• 垛battlement; target
• 哚used in 吲哚
• 埵solid earth
• 亸hang down
• 躱variant of 躲
• 軃variant of 亸