朵
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flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 木 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 朵
- Common rank
- #2,372
- Unicode
- U+6735
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 朵
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 克利斯朵夫 | Christopher (name) | |
| 耳朵眼儿 | earhole; ear piercing hole; earring hole | |
| 花骨朵 | (coll.) flower bud | |
| 扇风耳朵 | protruding ears | |
| 耳朵软 | credulous | |
| 软耳朵 | credulous person; credulous | |
| 咬着耳朵 | whispering in sb's ear | |
| 花朵 | flower | |
| 玛奇朵 | macchiato (loanword); latte macchiato (coffee) | |
| 刚朵拉 | see 貢多拉|贡多拉[gong4 duo1 la1] | |
| 竖起耳朵 | to prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth | |
| 骨朵 | (coll.) flower bud | |
| 骨朵 | club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip); (flower) bud | |
| 云朵 | a cloud | |
| 耳朵 | ear; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4],對|对[dui4]; handle (on a cup) | |
| 大快朵颐 | (idiom) to eat with great relish; to feast on (sth) | |
| 咬耳朵 | (coll.) to whisper in sb's ear | |
| 潘朵拉 | Pandora | |
| 耙耳朵 | (dialect) henpecked; to be under one's wife's thumb | |
| 朵颐 | (literary) to munch |
Sound family
These characters use 朵 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朵 sound part | cluster of flowers; earlobe; an item on both sides | |
| 躲 | to evade, to escape; to hide, to take shelter | |
| 剁 | to chop by pounding, to hash, to mince | |
| 垛 | heap, pile; to heap, to pile | |
| 跺 | to stamp the feet | |
| 哚 | a chemical element |