吐
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to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances)
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,249 U+5410
How 吐 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 土 (phonetic, tǔ)
How to remember it
spit · Heisig RSH #163
口 mouth + dirt
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 土
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 土 (tǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土 sound component | tǔ | soil, earth; items made of earth |
| 杜 | dù | to prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname |
| 肚 | dù | belly; abdomen, bowels |
| 牡 | mǔ | male animal; key, door bolt |
| 坤 | kūn | earth; feminine |
| 墅 | shù | villa, country house |
| 芏 | dù | Shichito matgrass |
| 钍 | tǔ | thorium |
Words containing 吐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吃人不吐骨头 | chī rén bù tǔ gǔ tóu | ruthless; vicious and greedy |
| 吐火罗人 | Tǔ huǒ luó rén | Tokharian people of central Asia |
| 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 | gǒu zuǐ li tǔ bù chū xiàng yá | lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom); fig. one does not expect fine words f… |
| 酒后吐真言 | jiǔ hòu tǔ zhēn yán | after wine, spit out the truth; in vino veritas |
| 不吐气 | bù tǔ qì | unaspirated |
| 马克·吐温 | Mǎ kè · Tǔ wēn | Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author … |
| 阿普吐龙 | ā pǔ tǔ lóng | apatosaurus; former name: brontosaurus; also called 雷龍|雷龙[lei2 long2] |
| 不吐不快 | bù tǔ bù kuài | to have to pour out what's on one's mind (idiom) |
| 一吐为快 | yī tǔ wéi kuài | to get sth off one's chest |
| 吐苦水 | tǔ kǔ shuǐ | to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth; fig. to complain bitterly; to pour ou… |
| 吐故纳新 | tǔ gù nà xīn | lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3… |
| 库木吐拉千佛洞 | Kù mù tǔ lā qiān fó dòng | Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang |
| 吐气 | tǔ qì | to exhale; to breathe out; (fig.) to let out pent-up feelings; to vent suppressed emotions… |
| 吐口 | tǔ kǒu | to spit; fig. to spit out (a request, an agreement etc) |
| 获利回吐 | huò lì huí tǔ | (finance) profit-taking |
| 吐字 | tǔ zì | diction; enunciation; (opera) to pronounce the words correctly |
| 吐便当 | tǔ biàn dāng | (slang) (of a character) to reappear in a story line after having been supposedly killed o… |
| 回吐 | huí tǔ | to regurgitate; (fig.) (of a stock market) to give up (gains) |
| 吐舌头 | tǔ shé tou | to stick out one's tongue |
| 吐血 | tù xiě | to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or fr… |