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毒

dú

HSK 5 Character

What 毒 means

1. poison
2. to poison
3. poisonous
4. malicious
5. cruel
6. fierce
7. narcotics

Example sentences

• 以毒攻毒
  Yǐdúgōngdú
  Fight fire with fire.
• 它有毒吗？
  Tā yǒudú ma?
  Is it poisonous?
• 这鱼没毒。
  This fish is free from poison.
• 我不吸毒。
  I don't do drugs.
• 对毒品说不。
  Duì dúpǐn shuō bù.
  Say no to drugs.
• 他是个吸毒男。
  Tā shì gè xīdú nán.
  He's a meth addict.

Words starting with 毒

• 毒品dú pǐndrugs; narcotics
• 毒打dú dǎto viciously beat (sb) up
• 毒药dú yàopoison
• 毒害dú hàito harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt…
• 毒素dú sùtoxin; (fig.) pernicious influence
• 毒蛇dú shéviper
• 毒气dú qìpoison gas; toxic gas; manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism)
• 毒性dú xìngtoxicity
• 毒辣dú làcruel; sinister; vicious
• 毒手dú shǒudeadly blow; vicious attack; treacherous assault
• 毒贩dú fàndrug dealer; drug trafficker
• 毒瘾dú yǐndrug addiction
• 毒瘤dú liúmalignant tumor
• 毒物dú wùpoisonous substance; poison
• 毒刑dú xíngtorture; cruel corporal punishment
• 毒力dú lìvirulence
• 毒化dú huàto poison (usu. figuratively); to debase; to pervert; to harm
• 毒牙dú yávenomous fang
• 毒资dú zīdrug money
• 毒理学dú lǐ xuétoxicology
• 毒瓦斯dú wǎ sīpoisonous gas; stinking fart
• 毒杀dú shāto kill by poisoning
• 毒气弹dú qì dànpoison gas shell; poison gas grenade
• 毒液dú yèvenom; poisonous fluid

Words containing 毒

• 病毒bìng dúvirus
• 消毒xiāo dúto disinfect; to sterilize
• 中毒zhòng dúto be poisoned
• 吸毒xī dúto take drugs
• 恶毒è dúmalicious
• 有毒yǒu dúpoisonous
• 杀毒shā dúto disinfect; (computing) to destroy a computer virus
• 贩毒fàn dúto traffic narcotics; drugs trade; opium trade
• 戒毒jiè dúto kick a drug habit; to abstain from drugs
• 狠毒hěn dúvicious; malicious; savage
• 食物中毒shí wù zhòng dúfood poisoning
• 解毒jiě dúto detoxify; to relieve fever (in Chinese medicine)
• 戒毒所jiè dú suǒdrug rehabilitation center
• 梅毒méi dúsyphilis
• 禁毒jìn dúdrug prohibition
• 服毒fú dúto take poison
• 剧毒jù dúhighly toxic; extremely poisonous
• 无毒wú dúharmless; innocuous; lit. not poisonous
• 艾滋病毒ài zī bìng dúhuman immune deficiency virus (HIV); the AIDS virus
• 缉毒jī dúto counter narcotics trafficking; drug enforcement
• 尿毒症niào dú zhèng(medicine) uremia
• 投毒tóu dúto poison
• 防毒fáng dúto protect against poisonous substances, narcotics or computer viruses
• 下毒xià dúto put poison in sth; to poison

Characters that look like 毒

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

• 桑sāng(bound form) mulberry tree
• 卷juànscroll; book; volume
• 妻qī(bound form) wife
• 拳quánfist; boxing
• 莓méi(bound form) berry (e.g. strawberry, blackberry, loganberry)
• 娄Lóusurname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy

Sounds the same

Read dú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 读to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school)
• 独alone; independent; single
• 渎disrespectful; (literary) ditch
• 犊calf; sacrificial victim
• 牍documents
• 髑used in 髑髅
• 黩blacken; constantly; to insult
• 椟cabinet; case; casket
• 㱩abortion; stillborn
• 𮙋to murmur; to slander
• 贕still-born chick (in unhatched egg); variant of 㱩
• 韣bow case