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Mythic Mandarin

拖 (tuō): meaning and stroke order

拖 (tuō) means to drag, to tow, to trail, to hang down, to mop (the floor), to delay, to drag on.

拖

Simplified
拖
Traditional
拖, 拕
Pinyin
tuō

Stroke order of 拖

拖

  • tuō variant of 拖[tuo1]
  • tuō to drag; to tow
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 拕

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 拖

  1. tuō
    • to drag
    • to tow
    • to trail
    • to hang down
    • to mop (the floor)
    • to delay
    • to drag on
  2. tuō Traditional 拕
    • variant of 拖[tuo1]

Radical and structure

拖
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 㐌 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.

拖 in our stories

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  • 于是它从天上飞下来，把头从窗户伸进叶公的书房，尾巴还拖在客厅里。

    yúshì tā cóng tiān shàng fēi xiàlai bǎ tóu cóng chuānghu shēn jìn Yègōng de shūfáng wěiba hái tuō zài kètīng lǐ

    So it flew down from the sky and poked its head through the window of Lord Ye's study, with its tail still trailing in the hall.

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 拖

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).