投 (tóu): meaning and stroke order
投 (tóu) means to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc), to cast (a ballot).
投
- Simplified
- 投
- Traditional
- 投 (same form)
- Pinyin
- tóu
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Stroke order of 投
投
- tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot)
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 投
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tóu
- to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc)
- to cast (a ballot)
- to cast (a glance, a shadow etc)
- to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine)
- to send (a letter, a manuscript etc)
- to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide)
- to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of
- (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
Radical and structure
- 投
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 殳 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 投
- 投票 tóu piào to vote; vote
- 投降 tóu xiáng to surrender
- 投篮 tóu lán to shoot for the basket (basketball)
- 投资人 tóu zī rén investor
- 投资 tóu zī investment; to invest
投 in our stories
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第二天，她把英语课搬到了操场上：投进一个球，就要用英语说一个单词。
dì-èr tiān tā bǎ Yīngyǔ kè bān dào le cāochǎng shàng tóu jìn yí gè qiú jiù yào yòng Yīngyǔ shuō yí gè dāncí
The next day she moved English class to the playground: for each basket you scored, you had to say a word in English.
From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5
Stories using 投
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).