兔
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rabbit
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 儿 +6
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 兔
- Common rank
- #1,843
- Unicode
- U+5154
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
rabbit · Heisig RSH #1447
bound up + 口 mouth + human legs + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 兔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兔子尾巴长不了 | rabbits don't have long tails (idiom); its days are numbered; won't last long | |
| 兔子不吃窝边草 | (lit.) a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying); (fig.) even a scoundr… | |
| 不见兔子不撒鹰 | you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom); one doesn't act before one … | |
| 东兔西乌 | lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom); fig. the passage of time | |
| 小白兔 | small white rabbit; (fig.) innocent and naive person; (fig.) (slang) breast | |
| 金乌西坠，玉兔东升 | lit. the golden bird of the sun sets in the west, the jade hare of the moon rises in the e… | |
| 兔斯基 | Tuzki, a Chinese cartoon rabbit character used in emoticons and stickers, created in 2006 | |
| 关门兔 | (sports) (coll.) sweeper (in a running event) | |
| 兔热病 | tularemia; rabbit fever | |
| 天兔座 | Lepus (constellation) | |
| 守株待兔，缘木求鱼 | to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); withou… | |
| 兔子 | hare; rabbit; CL:隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 海兔 | sea hare (large sea slugs, mostly of genus Aplysia) | |
| 白兔 | white rabbit; (fig.) (slang) breast | |
| 兔年 | Year of the Rabbit (e.g. 2011) | |
| 米兔 | (Internet slang) (loanword) #MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and assault) | |
| 玉兔 | the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon); the Moon | |
| 野兔 | hare | |
| 兔死狐悲 | lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded… | |
| 狡兔死，走狗烹 | see 兔死狗烹[tu4 si3 gou3 peng1] |
Sound family
These characters use 兔 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兔 sound part | rabbit, hare | |
| 菟 | creeper, parasitic vine; Cuscuta sinensis | |
| 堍 | embankment |