兆
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(bound form) omen; to foretell; million; mega-; (Tw) trillion; tera-; (old) billion
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 +4
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 兆
- Common rank
- #2,360
- Unicode
- U+5146
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 兆 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
Cracks in oracle bones used in fortune-telling
How to remember it
portent · Heisig RSH #237
— as a component also called: portent, turtle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 兆
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兆电子伏 | mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules) | |
| 兆字节 | megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes) | |
| 兆瓦特 | megawatt | |
| 兆瓦时 | megawatt-hour | |
| 不祥之兆 | (idiom) bad omen | |
| 兆头 | omen; portent; sign | |
| 前兆 | omen; prior indication; first sign | |
| 百兆 | (computer networking) 100 megabits per second; 100Base-T | |
| 吉兆 | lucky omen | |
| 兆周 | megacycle (MC), equals 1,000,000 Hz | |
| 千兆 | giga-; (computer networking) gigabits per second; 1000Base-T | |
| 兆瓦 | megawatt | |
| 先兆 | omen | |
| 征兆 | omen; sign (that sth is about to happen); warning sign | |
| 京兆 | capital of a country | |
| 险兆 | evil omen | |
| 兆赫 | megahertz | |
| 预兆 | omen; sign (of sth yet to occur); prior indication; to foreshadow | |
| 凶兆 | ill omen | |
| 朕兆 | omen; sign (that sth is about to happen); warning sign |
Sound family
These characters use 兆 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兆 sound part | omen; mega-, million | |
| 跳 | to hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to dance | |
| 桃 | peach; marriage; surname | |
| 逃 | to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee | |
| 挑 | to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load | |
| 姚 | handsome, elegant, attractive; surname | |
| 洮 | to cleanse; a river in Gansu province | |
| 眺 | to gaze, to look at; to scan, to survey | |
| 窕 | slender; quiet, modest; charming | |
| 铫 | hoe; spear; surname | |
| 珧 | mother-of-pearl | |
| 晁 | morning, dawn; surname | |
| 祧 | ancestral hall | |
| 鼗 | small revolving drum with knobs |