逗
to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn; brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4])
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,116 U+9017
How 逗 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 豆 (phonetic, dòu)
How to remember it
tease · Heisig RSH #2480
豆 beans + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 豆
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 豆 (dòu) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 豆 sound component | dòu | beans, peas; bean-shaped |
| 短 | duǎn | brief, short; deficient, lacking |
| 登 | dēng | to rise, to mount, to board, to climb |
| 厨 | chú | kitchen; closet, cupboard |
| 痘 | dòu | smallpox |
Words containing 逗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 逗人发笑 | dòu rén fā xiào | to make people laugh |
| 逗人喜爱 | dòu rén xǐ ài | cute |
| 逗笑儿 | dòu xiào r | erhua variant of 逗笑[dou4 xiao4] |
| 逗哈哈 | dòu hā hā | to joke; to crack a joke |
| 逗人 | dòu rén | amusing; funny; entertaining |
| 逗点 | dòu diǎn | comma |
| 逗情 | dòu qíng | to flirt; to titillate; to provoke |
| 挑逗性 | tiǎo dòu xìng | provocative; tantalizing; titillating |
| 逗乐 | dòu lè | to amuse oneself; to clown around; to provoke laughter |
| 逗比 | dòu bī | (slang) silly but amusing person |
| 逗号 | dòu hào | comma (punct.) |
| 逗嘴 | dòu zuǐ | to banter |
| 逗趣儿 | dòu qù r | to amuse; to make sb laugh; to tease |
| 逗笑 | dòu xiào | to amuse; to cause to smile; amusing |
| 逗闷子 | dòu mèn zi | (dialect) to joke |
| 逗留 | dòu liú | to stay for a while; to sojourn |
| 引逗 | yǐn dòu | to tantalize; to lead on; to tease |
| 逗引 | dòu yǐn | to make fun of |
| 秀逗 | xiù dòu | to short-circuit; (fig.) to have a mental lapse; to get one's wires crossed; to be addled |
| 逗弄 | dòu nòng | to tease; to provoke; to play with (a child, animal etc) |