(tū) - suddenly; to dash out (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
tūTraditional: 突
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Translation
suddenly; to dash out (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing a dog 犬 under a cave or hole 穴, picturing a dog suddenly darting out, hence the sense of bursting forth or suddenly.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 穴 (cave, hole) + 犬 (dog)
Stroke order
突
Examples
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He suddenly laughed.
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The weather suddenly turned cold.
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She stopped suddenly.
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His words took me by surprise.
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Everything happened very abruptly.
突 (tū) means to dash out, and figuratively suddenly. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 突然 (tū rán), suddenly.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 突.
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