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秃

tū

HSK 6 Character Traditional 禿

What 秃 means

1. bald (lacking hair or feathers)
2. barren; bare; denuded
3. blunt (lacking a point)
4. (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something

Example sentences

• 你有点秃顶了。
  Nǐ yǒudiǎn tūdǐng le.
  You have developed a bald spot.
• 法国国王秃顶。
  Fǎguó guówáng tūdǐng.
  The King of France is bald.
• 他很年轻就开始秃头了。
  Tā hěn niánqīng jiù kāishǐ tūtóu le.
  He started going bald quite young.
• 他是个很安静的人，头顶有点秃。
  Tā shì ge hěn ānjìng de rén, tóu dǐng yǒudiǎn tū.
  He's a quiet man, a little bald on top.
• 他从相当年轻的时候就开始秃顶了。
  He started going bald quite young.
• 我不明白为什么他全秃还要去理发店。
  Wǒ bù míngbai wèishénme tā quán tū hái yào qù lǐfàdiàn.
  I don't understand why he goes to the barber's, as he is bald.

Words starting with 秃

• 秃顶tū dǐngbald head
• 秃头tū tóuto bare one's head; to be bareheaded; to go bald; bald head
• 秃子tū zibald-headed person; baldy
• 秃鹫tū jiùvulture; (bird species of China) cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus)
• 秃鹰tū yīngvulture; condor
• 秃疮tū chuāng(dialect) favus of the scalp (skin disease)
• 秃发Tū fāa branch of the Xianbei 鲜卑 nomadic people
• 秃驴tū lǘ(derog.) Buddhist monk
• 秃宝盖tū bǎo gàiname of "cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14); see also 冖
• 秃鼻乌鸦tū bí wū yā(bird species of China) rook (Corvus frugilegus)
• 秃瓢tū piáobald head (colloquial)
• 秃鹳tū guàn(bird species of China) lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus)

Words containing 秃

• 光秃秃guāng tū tūbald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc)
• 圆秃yuán tūspot baldness (alopecia areata)
• 斑秃bān tūspot baldness (alopecia areata)
• 贼秃zéi tū(derog.) Buddhist monk
• 对着和尚骂贼秃duì zhe hé shang mà zéi tū(lit.) in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit…
• 指着和尚骂秃子zhǐ zhe hé shang mà tū zilit. to insult a bald man while pointing at a monk (idiom); fig. to insult indirectly…

Characters that look like 秃

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

• 先xiānbeforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 免miǎnto excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office
• 秀xiù(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent…
• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 壳ké(colloquial) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing…
• 羌qiāngmuntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)

Sounds the same

Read tū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 突to dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge
• 凸to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc); Taiwan pr. tú
• 葖radish; daikon; Taiwan pr. tú
• 痜old variant of 秃; bald