tǎo

Traditional: 讨

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Translation

to ask for, to demand (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 讨

Examples

I really dislike the rain.

chí

He hates being late.

This kind of behaviour is annoying.

táng

The child asked Mum for some sweets.

bēi

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.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 讨.

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This word is part of lesson 105.