吐
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to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 吐
- Common rank
- #1,249
- Unicode
- U+5410
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Formation & memory
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Words with 吐
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吃人不吐骨头 | ruthless; vicious and greedy | |
| 吐火罗人 | Tokharian people of central Asia | |
| 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 | lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom); fig. one does not expect fine words f… | |
| 酒后吐真言 | after wine, spit out the truth; in vino veritas | |
| 不吐气 | unaspirated | |
| 马克·吐温 | Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author … | |
| 阿普吐龙 | apatosaurus; former name: brontosaurus; also called 雷龍|雷龙[lei2 long2] | |
| 不吐不快 | to have to pour out what's on one's mind (idiom) | |
| 一吐为快 | to get sth off one's chest | |
| 吐苦水 | to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth; fig. to complain bitterly; to pour ou… | |
| 吐故纳新 | lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3… | |
| 库木吐拉千佛洞 | Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang | |
| 吐气 | to exhale; to breathe out; (fig.) to let out pent-up feelings; to vent suppressed emotions… | |
| 吐口 | to spit; fig. to spit out (a request, an agreement etc) | |
| 获利回吐 | (finance) profit-taking | |
| 吐字 | diction; enunciation; (opera) to pronounce the words correctly | |
| 吐便当 | (slang) (of a character) to reappear in a story line after having been supposedly killed o… | |
| 回吐 | to regurgitate; (fig.) (of a stock market) to give up (gains) | |
| 吐舌头 | to stick out one's tongue | |
| 吐血 | to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or fr… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 土 — compare how they read.