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梼

táo

Character Traditional 檮

What 梼 means

1. dunce
2. blockhead

Words starting with 梼

• 梼杌táo wùlegendary beast

Characters built on 寿

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

• 祷dǎoprayer; pray; supplication
• 涛tāobig wave; Taiwan pr. táo
• 焘dàocover over; to envelope

Sounds the same

Read táo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 萄used in 葡萄
• 逃to escape; to run away; to flee
• 淘to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge…
• 桃peach
• 陶pottery; pleased
• 啕(bound form) to wail
• 洮to cleanse; name of a river
• 匋pottery
• 咷wail
• 绹bind; cord; twist
• 醄used in 酕醄
• 𫘦used in 騊駼

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read táo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.