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Mythic Mandarin

吐 (tǔ): meaning and stroke order

吐 (tǔ) means to spit, to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc), to say.

吐

Simplified
吐
Traditional
吐 (same form)
Pinyin
tǔ · tù

Stroke order of 吐

吐

  • tǔ to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc)
  • tù to vomit; to throw up
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 吐

  1. tǔ
    • to spit
    • to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc)
    • to say
    • to pour out (one's grievances)
  2. tù
    • to vomit
    • to throw up

Radical and structure

吐
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · 口 on the left, 土 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.

吐 in our stories

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  • 传说孔子出生以前，一只麒麟来到他家，吐出了一块写着字的玉。

    chuánshuō Kǒngzǐ chūshēng yǐqián yì zhī qílín láidào tā jiā tǔ chū le yí kuài xiě zhe zì de yù

    Legend says that before Confucius was born, a qilin came to his home and spat out a piece of jade with writing on it.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

  • 她发现，这些“果子”原来是一种小虫吐丝做成的茧，小虫吃的正是桑树的叶子。

    tā fāxiàn zhèxiē guǒzi yuánlái shì yì zhǒng xiǎo chóng tǔ sī zuò chéng de jiǎn xiǎo chóng chī de zhèngshì sāngshù de yèzi

    She discovered that the "fruits" were really cocoons spun from the silk of a small worm, and that the worms fed on mulberry leaves.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 吐

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).