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Mythic Mandarin

突 (tū): meaning and stroke order

突 (tū) means to dash, to move forward quickly, to bulge, to protrude, to break through, to rush out.

突

Simplified
突
Traditional
突 (same form)
Pinyin
tū

Stroke order of 突

突

  • tū to dash; to move forward quickly
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 突

  1. tū
    • to dash
    • to move forward quickly
    • to bulge
    • to protrude
    • to break through
    • to rush out
    • sudden
    • Taiwan pr. [tu2]

Radical and structure

突
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 9 strokes · 穴 on top, 犬 below

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 突

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).