杜
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birchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent; to restrict
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 杜
- Common rank
- #1,064
- Unicode
- U+675C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 杜
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县 | Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County, in Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市[Da4 qing4 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 杜布罗夫尼克 | Dubrovnik (city in Croatia) | |
| 杜门不出 | see 閉門不出|闭门不出[bi4 men2 bu4 chu1] | |
| 杜尔伯特县 | see 杜爾伯特蒙古族自治縣|杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县[Du4 er3 bo2 te4 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 亚历山大·杜布切克 | Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969) | |
| 杜尔伯特 | see 杜爾伯特蒙古族自治縣|杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县[Du4 er3 bo2 te4 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 杜塞尔多夫 | Düsseldorf (city in Germany) | |
| 反杜林论 | Anti-Dühring, book by Friedrich Engels 恩格斯[En1 ge2 si1] | |
| 杜松子酒 | gin | |
| 瓦加杜古 | Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso | |
| 杜集区 | Duji, a district of Huaibei City 淮北市[Huai2 bei3 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 杜本内 | Dubonnet (name); Dubonnet (red vermouth aperitif wine) | |
| 杜塞道夫 | (Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany) | |
| 迪吉里杜管 | (loanword) didgeridoo | |
| 杜松子 | juniper berry | |
| 大李杜 | Li Bai 李白[Li3 Bai2] and Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3] | |
| 杜马 | Duma, lower chamber of Russian parliament | |
| 杜兴氏肌肉营养不良症 | Duchenne muscular dystrophy | |
| 喜马拉雅中杜鹃 | (bird species of China) Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus) | |
| 普密蓬·阿杜德 | Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 土 — compare how they read.