(tǎo) - to ask for, to demand (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
tǎoTraditional: 讨
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Translation
to ask for, to demand (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A compound of the speech radical 讠and 寸 (cùn, a measure, a hand), to demand or seek by word, hence to ask for or to discuss.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 寸 (cùn, hand/measure)
Stroke order
讨
Examples
雨。
I really dislike the rain.
。
He hates being late.
。
This kind of behaviour is annoying.
糖。
The child asked Mum for some sweets.
。
He came to ask for a cup of water.
讨 (tǎo) means to ask for or to demand. It is a bound morpheme and most commonly appears in 讨厌 (tǎo yàn), to dislike or annoying.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 讨.
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