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杜

dù

HSK 6 Character

What 杜 means

1. birchleaf pear (tree)
2. to stop
3. to prevent
4. to restrict

Other readings

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

• Dùsurname Du

Example sentences

• 防微杜渐。
  A stitch in time saves nine.
• 我叫杜莎娜。
  I am called Dusanna.
• 杜鹃花很漂亮。
  Azaleas are beautiful.
• 他用他的迪吉里杜管勾引了她。
  Tāyòng tā de díjílǐdùguǎn gōuyǐn le tā.
  He seduced her with his didgeridoo.
• 我在物理课遇到一个家伙用PVC管做了迪吉里杜管。
  Wǒ zài wùlǐ kè yùdào yī gè jiāhuo yòng P VC guǎn zuò le díjílǐdùguǎn.
  A guy I met in my physics class made a didgeridoo out of PVC pipe.
• 我试了Control，但是我觉得它们的比杜蕾斯的紧。
  Wǒ shì le Control, dànshì wǒ juéde tāmen de bǐ Dùlěisī de jǐn.
  I've tried Controls, but they seem a little tighter to me than Durexes.

Words starting with 杜

• 杜绝dù juéto put an end to
• 杜甫Dù FǔDu Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet
• 杜鹃dù juāncuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鹃鸟); Indian azalea…
• 杜威Dù WēiDu Wei (1982-), Shanghai soccer star; Dewey (name)
• 杜撰dù zhuànto fabricate; to make sth up; invented
• 杜月笙Dù Yuè shēngDu Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist
• 杜牧Dù MùDu Mu (803-852) Tang dynasty poet
• 杜鹃花dù juān huāIndian Azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch)
• 杜琪峰Dù Qí fēngJohnnie To (1955-), Hong Kong film director
• 杜比Dù bǐDolby (audio technology)
• 杜邦Dù bāngDuPont (company)
• 杜仲dù zhòngeucommia (a kind of rubber tree)
• 杜口dù kǒuto remain silent
• 杜哈Dù hāDoha, capital of Qatar (Tw)
• 杜塞dù sèto stop; to block
• 杜康Dù KāngDu Kang, legendary inventor of wine
• 杜拜Dù bàiDubai (Tw)
• 杜衡dù héngAsarum forbesii (wild ginger plant)
• 杜门dù ménto close the door (lit. and fig.)
• 杜马Dù mǎDuma, lower chamber of Russian parliament
• 杜冷丁dù lěng dīng(medicine) dolantin (loanword); pethidine
• 杜尚别Dù shàng biéDushanbe, capital of Tajikistan
• 杜集区Dù jí QūDuji, a district of Huaibei City 淮北市
• 杜松子dù sōng zǐjuniper berry

Words containing 杜

• 防杜fáng dùto prevent
• 大李杜Dà Lǐ DùLi Bai 李白
• 瓦杜兹Wǎ dù zīVaduz, capital of Liechtenstein
• 反杜林论Fǎn Dù lín LùnAnti-Dühring, book by Friedrich Engels 恩格斯
• 瓦加杜古Wǎ jiā dù gǔOuagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
• 迪吉里杜管dí jí lǐ dù guǎn(loanword) didgeridoo
• 美杜莎Měi dù shāMedusa (monster of Greek mythology)
• 防微杜渐fáng wēi dù jiànto nip in the bud (idiom)
• 大杜鹃dà dù juān(bird species of China) common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
• 小杜鹃xiǎo dù juān(bird species of China) lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
• 栗斑杜鹃lì bān dù juān(bird species of China) banded bay cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii)
• 棕腹杜鹃zōng fù dù juān(bird species of China) Malaysian hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx fugax)
• 北方中杜鹃běi fāng zhōng dù juān(bird species of China) oriental cuckoo (Cuculus optatus)
• 万那杜Wàn nà dùVanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean (Tw)
• 八声杜鹃bā shēng dù juān(bird species of China) plaintive cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus)
• 四声杜鹃sì shēng dù juān(bird species of China) Indian cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus)
• 喜马拉雅中杜鹃Xǐ mǎ lā yǎ zhōng dù juān(bird species of China) Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
• 普密蓬·阿杜德Pǔ mì péng · Ā dù déBhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016
• 亚历山大·杜布切克Yà lì shān dà · Dù bù qiē kèAlexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969)
• 阿卜杜拉Ā bǔ dù lāAbdullah (name)

Characters built on 土

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

• 主zhǔowner; master; host
• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last
• 域yùfield; region; area
• 塑sùto model (a figure) in clay; (bound form) plastic (i.e. the synthetic material)
• 墅shùvilla
• 埔bùused in place names
• 墓mùgrave; tomb; mausoleum
• 吐tùto vomit; to throw up

Characters that look like 杜

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

• 拉lāto pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag
• 社shè(bound form) society; organization; agency; (old) god of the land
• 扯chěto pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy
• 祉zhǐfelicity
• 牡mǔ(of a bird, animal or plant) male; key; hills
• 拄zhǔto lean on; to prop on

Sounds the same

Read dù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 度to pass; to spend (time); measure
• 肚belly
• 渡to cross; to pass through; to ferry
• 妒to envy (success, talent); jealous
• 镀to plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 蠹insect that eats into books, clothing etc; moth-eaten; worm-eaten
• 喥used in location words (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 里
• 芏used in 茳芏; Taiwan pr. tǔ
• 𬭊dubnium (chemistry)
• 螙variant of 蠹
• 蠧variant of 蠹