(duǒ) - to hide, to dodge, to avoid in Mandarin
duǒTraditional: 躲
Translation
to hide, to dodge, to avoid
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the body radical 身 (shēn) suggesting bodily movement and 朵 (duǒ) supplying the sound. It means to move the body out of harm's way.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 身 (shēn, body) + 朵 (duǒ, phonetic)
Stroke order
躲
Examples
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He hid behind the door.
，！
Dodge out of the way, a car is coming!
树。
The children hid behind the trees to play.
。
You cannot keep avoiding this problem.
雨，。
It is raining, let us take shelter for a bit.
躲 (duǒ) means to hide, to dodge or to avoid. It describes physically getting out of the way or evading something.
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