肚
2 readings · tap one to hear it
belly
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 肉 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 肚
- Common rank
- #1,378
- Unicode
- U+809A
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
belly · Heisig RSH #160
part of the body + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大肚子经济 | "Pregnancy-oriented Economy", new market conditions brought about by a predicted baby boom… | |
| 把心放在肚子里 | (coll.) to be completely at ease | |
| 心知肚明 | to be well aware | |
| 大肚子 | pregnant; potbelly; big eater | |
| 一肚子 | bellyful (of sth); full of (sth) | |
| 拉肚子 | (coll.) to have diarrhea | |
| 鱼肚白 | fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) | |
| 一肚皮 | bellyful (of sth); full of (sth) | |
| 人心隔肚皮 | there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom) | |
| 将军肚子 | beer belly (complimentary) | |
| 打掉门牙，往肚子里咽 | lit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom); fig. to… | |
| 罗汉肚 | potbelly | |
| 笑破肚皮 | to split one's sides laughing | |
| 小肚鸡肠 | lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom); narrow-minded; petty | |
| 肚子 | belly; abdomen; stomach; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 肚儿 | erhua variant of 肚[du3] | |
| 害肚子 | upset stomach; stomachache | |
| 肚子痛 | stomachache; bellyache | |
| 下肚 | to consume (food or drink); to eat; to drink | |
| 直肠直肚 | frank and outspoken (idiom) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 土 — compare how they read.