(gǒu) - dog in Mandarin
gǒuTraditional: 狗
Translation
dog
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Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 犭 'dog/beast' radical gives the meaning, and 句 (gou) supplies the sound. The character means 'dog'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 犭 (dog/beast radical) + 句 (gou, phonetic)
Stroke order
狗
Examples
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I have a dog at home.
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This dog is very smart.
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Be careful, that dog bites.
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The neighbours keep two dogs.
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He takes the dog out every morning.
狗 (gǒu) means dog. The measure word is 只 (zhī) for individual animals. 狗 is used both literally and figuratively - in insults (走狗, running dog or lackey) and expressions (狗日的 is a vulgar insult; 狗眼看人低, a dog that looks down on people, meaning to be snobbish). In Chinese culture the dog is the 11th animal of the zodiac. Common compounds include 小狗 (puppy), 警犬 (police dog - 犬 quǎn being a more formal word for dog).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 狗.
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