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Mythic Mandarin

陶 (táo): meaning and stroke order

陶 (táo) means pottery, pleased, surname Tao.

陶

Simplified
陶
Traditional
陶 (same form)
Pinyin
táo

Stroke order of 陶

陶

  • Táo surname Tao
  • táo pottery; pleased
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 陶

  1. táo
    • pottery
    • pleased
  2. Táo
    • surname Tao

Radical and structure

陶
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 11 strokes · 阝 on the left, 匋 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.

陶 in our stories

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  • 送老郝出门的时候，他半开玩笑地说：“陶经理，你那一分钟不说话，比说一小时还厉害。”

    sòng lǎo Hǎo chūmén de shíhou tā bàn kāi wánxiào de shuō Táo jīnglǐ nǐ nà yì fēnzhōng bù shuōhuà bǐ shuō yì xiǎoshí hái lìhai

    As she saw Old Hao out, he said half-jokingly, "Ms Tao, that minute of silence was more powerful than an hour of talking."

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 陶

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).