讨 (tǎo): meaning and stroke order
讨 (tǎo) means to invite, to provoke, to demand or ask for, to send armed forces to suppress.
讨
- Simplified
- 讨
- Traditional
- 討
- Pinyin
- tǎo
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Stroke order of 讨
讨
- tǎo to invite; to provoke
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 討
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Meaning of 讨
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tǎo
Traditional 討
- to invite
- to provoke
- to demand or ask for
- to send armed forces to suppress
- to denounce or condemn
- to marry (a woman)
- to discuss or study
Radical and structure
- 讨
- Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · 讠 on the left, 寸 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 讨
- 讨论 tǎo lùn to discuss; to talk over
- 探讨 tàn tǎo to investigate; to probe
- 讨厌 tǎo yàn to dislike; to loathe
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).