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杜

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birchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent; to restrict

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,064 U+675C

How 杜 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

木 (semantic, “tree”) + 土 (phonetic, tǔ)

components: 木 土

How to remember it

prevent · Heisig RSH #1569

木 tree + 土 soil

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:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
土 sound component tǔ soil, earth; items made of earth
吐 tǔ to vomit, to spew out, to cough up; to say
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 杜

WordPinyinMeaning
杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县 Dù ěr bó tè Měng gǔ zú Zì zhì xiàn Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County, in Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市[Da4 qing4 Shi4], Heilongjiang
杜布罗夫尼克 Dù bù luó fū ní kè Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
杜门不出 dù mén bù chū see 閉門不出|闭门不出[bi4 men2 bu4 chu1]
杜尔伯特县 Dù ěr bó tè Xiàn see 杜爾伯特蒙古族自治縣|杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县[Du4 er3 bo2 te4 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
亚历山大·杜布切克 Yà lì shān dà · Dù bù qiē kè Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969)
杜尔伯特 Dù ěr bó tè see 杜爾伯特蒙古族自治縣|杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县[Du4 er3 bo2 te4 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
杜塞尔多夫 Dù sài ěr duō fū Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
反杜林论 Fǎn Dù lín Lùn Anti-Dühring, book by Friedrich Engels 恩格斯[En1 ge2 si1]
杜松子酒 dù sōng zǐ jiǔ gin
瓦加杜古 Wǎ jiā dù gǔ Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
杜集区 Dù jí Qū Duji, a district of Huaibei City 淮北市[Huai2 bei3 Shi4], Anhui
杜本内 Dù běn nèi Dubonnet (name); Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine)
杜塞道夫 Dù sè dào fū (Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
迪吉里杜管 dí jí lǐ dù guǎn (loanword) didgeridoo
杜松子 dù sōng zǐ juniper berry
大李杜 Dà Lǐ Dù Li Bai 李白[Li3 Bai2] and Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3]
杜马 Dù mǎ Duma, lower chamber of Russian parliament
杜兴氏肌肉营养不良症 Dù xīng shì jī ròu yíng yǎng bù liáng zhèng Duchenne muscular dystrophy
喜马拉雅中杜鹃 Xǐ mǎ lā yǎ zhōng dù juān (bird species of China) Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
普密蓬·阿杜德 Pǔ mì péng · Ā dù dé Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016