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涂鸦

tú yā

2-character word Traditional 塗鴉

What 涂鸦 means

1. graffiti
2. scrawl
3. poor calligraphy
4. to write badly
5. to scribble

The characters in 涂鸦

• 涂túto apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub
• 鸦yācrow

Example sentences

• 纽约市出现了一种新的艺术潮流，将古老的钩编工艺带到了街头。在那里，传统上，墙壁和栅栏一直是涂鸦艺术家的画布。
  A new art trend in New York City takes the age-old craft of crocheting to the streets, where traditionally walls and fences have been serving as canvases for graffiti artists.

Sounds the same

Read tú yā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 涂鸭variant of 涂鸦; graffiti; scrawl