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Mythic Mandarin

赌 (dǔ): meaning and stroke order

赌 (dǔ) means to bet; to gamble.

赌

Simplified
赌
Traditional
賭
Pinyin
dǔ

Stroke order of 赌

赌

  • dǔ to bet; to gamble
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 賭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 赌

  1. dǔ Traditional 賭
    • to bet; to gamble

Radical and structure

赌
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 贝 on the left, 者 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 赌

赌 in our stories

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  • 龙王为了赢这场赌,偷偷把下雨的时间推迟了一个时辰,又少下了三寸八点。

    Lóngwáng wèile yíng zhè chǎng dǔ tōutōu bǎ xiàyǔ de shíjiān tuīchí le yí gè shíchen yòu shǎo xià le sān cùn bā diǎn

    To win the bet, the Dragon King secretly delayed the rain by one double-hour and made it three inches and eight drops less.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 赌

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).