妥
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suitable; adequate; ready; settled
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 女 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 妥
- Common rank
- #2,081
- Unicode
- U+59A5
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Formation & memory
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How 妥 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand 爫 over a woman 女, representing control
How to remember it
appropriate · Heisig RSH #1901
vulture + 女 woman
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 妥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴比妥 | barbitone; barbital | |
| 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… | |
| 威妥玛拼法 | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
| 威妥玛拼音 | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
| 陀思妥也夫斯基 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… | |
| 不妥协 | uncompromising | |
| 异戊巴比妥 | amobarbital (drug) (loanword) | |
| 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 曼妥思 | Mentos, a brand of candy produced by European company Perfetti Van Melle | |
| 威妥玛 | Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wa… | |
| 妥实 | proper; appropriate | |
| 妥当 | appropriate; proper; ready | |
| 妥瑞症 | Tourette syndrome | |
| 收妥 | (commerce) to have received (goods, money) | |
| 妥投 | (of mail or a package) to have been successfully delivered | |
| 待乙妥 | DEET (insect repellent) (loanword) | |
| 妥善 | appropriate; proper | |
| 办妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through | |
| 戊巴比妥钠 | pentasorbital sodium (a sedative) | |
| 备妥 | to get sth ready |
Sound family
These characters use 妥 as their sound component — compare how they read.