徒
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(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 彳 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 徒
- Common rank
- #1,023
- Unicode
- U+5F92
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
follower · Heisig RSH #1995
queue + 走 walk
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 徒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 名师出高徒 | A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence … | |
| 天主教徒 | Catholic; follower of Catholicism | |
| 好事之徒 | busybody | |
| 好色之徒 | lecher; womanizer; dirty old man | |
| 酒色之徒 | follower of wine and women; dissolute person | |
| 安徒生 | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) | |
| 徒有其名 | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame; nowhere near as good as he's made… | |
| 道教徒 | a Daoist; a follower of Daoism | |
| 新教徒 | Protestant; adherent of Protestantism | |
| 有其师，必有其徒 | As the teacher, so the pupil. (idiom) | |
| 印度教徒 | Hindu; adherent of Hinduism | |
| 清教徒 | Puritan | |
| 回教徒 | Muslim | |
| 徒步区 | (Tw) car-free zone; pedestrian zone | |
| 水至清则无鱼，人至察则无徒 | (saying) water that is too clear has no fish, and one who is too severe has no friends | |
| 徒有虚名 | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame; nowhere near as good as he's made… | |
| 学徒 | apprentice; to serve an apprenticeship | |
| 徒劳无功 | to work to no avail (idiom) | |
| 徒儿 | disciple; apprentice | |
| 异教徒 | member of another religion; heathen; pagan; heretic; apostate |