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驼

tuó

Character Traditional 駝

What 驼 means

1. hump or hunchbacked
2. camel

Other readings

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

• tuóvariant of {驼|tuó}

Example sentences

• 她骑着骆驼。
  Tā qí zhe luòtuo.
  She rode a camel.
• 他是一个驼背。
  Tā shì yī gè tuóbèi.
  He is a hunchback.
• 骆驼是沙漠之舟。
  Luòtuo shì shāmò zhī zhōu.
  A camel is to the desert what a ship is to the sea.
• 驼鸟不会在空中飞。
  An ostrich does not fly through the air.
• 萨米有峰巨大的骆驼。
  Sami has a huge camel.
• 骆驼可以撑很久不吃不喝。
  The camel can go a long time without water and food.

Words starting with 驼

• 驼背tuó bèihunchbacked; stooping; hunchback
• 驼峰tuó fēnghump of a camel; hump (in a railroad hump yard)
• 驼子tuó zihunchback
• 驼色tuó sèlight tan (color); camel-hair color
• 驼鸡tuó jīostrich (Struthio camelus); also written 鸵鸟; fabulous bird like Sinbad's roc
• 驼鹿tuó lùelk; moose
• 驼背鲸tuó bèi jīnghumpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
• 驼峰命名法tuó fēng mìng míng fǎ(computing) CamelCase

Words containing 驼

• 骆驼luò tuocamel; (colloquial) blockhead; ninny
• 微驼wēi tuóstooping; hunched
• 羊驼yáng tuóalpaca
• 单峰驼dān fēng tuódromedary
• 大羊驼dà yáng tuóllama
• 小羊驼xiǎo yáng tuó(zoology) vicuña
• 锅驼机guō tuó jīportable steam engine
• 弯腰驼背wān yāo tuó bèislouch; stoop; poor posture
• 晒骆驼shài luò tuoxylitol (Cantonese); see also 木糖醇
• 骆驼祥子Luò tuo Xiáng ziCamel Xiangzi, novel by Lao She 老舍
• 驯驼xùn tuóto tame a camel
• 橐驼tuó tuócamel; hunchback
• 骒驼kè tuócow (female camel)
• 瘦死的骆驼比马大shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dàlit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)…
• 压死骆驼的最后一根稻草yā sǐ luò tuo de zuì hòu yī gēn dào cǎothe straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom); the final straw

Characters built on 它

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

• 陀tuó(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
• 舵duòhelm; rudder
• 鸵tuóostrich
• 坨tuómound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits)…
• 佗tuócarry on the back
• 沱tuótearful; to branch (of river)
• 砣tuósteelyard weight; stone roller; to polish jade with an emery wheel
• 跎tuóto stumble; to waste time

Characters that look like 驼

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

• 驱qūto expel; to urge on; to drive
• 胞bāoplacenta; womb; born of the same parents
• 挖wāto dig; to excavate; to scoop out
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 孢bāospore
• 驸fùprince consort

Sounds the same

Read tuó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 陀(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
• 坨mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits)…
• 驮to carry on one's back
• 砣steelyard weight; stone roller; to polish jade with an emery wheel
• 鸵ostrich
• 佗carry on the back
• 沱tearful; to branch (of river)
• 跎to stumble; to waste time
• 酡flushed (from drinking)
• 驒(horse)
• 橐sack; tube open at both ends; (onomatopoeia) footsteps
• 紽braid on a robe