逗
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to tease (playfully); to entice; (coll.) to joke; (coll.) funny; amusing; to stay; to sojourn; brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辵 +7
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 逗
- Common rank
- #2,116
- Unicode
- U+9017
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tease · Heisig RSH #2480
豆 beans + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 逗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 逗人发笑 | to make people laugh | |
| 逗人喜爱 | cute | |
| 逗笑儿 | erhua variant of 逗笑[dou4 xiao4] | |
| 逗哈哈 | to joke; to crack a joke | |
| 逗人 | amusing; funny; entertaining | |
| 逗点 | comma | |
| 逗情 | to flirt; to titillate; to provoke | |
| 挑逗性 | provocative; tantalizing; titillating | |
| 逗乐 | to amuse oneself; to clown around; to provoke laughter | |
| 逗比 | (slang) silly but amusing person | |
| 逗号 | comma (punct.) | |
| 逗嘴 | to banter | |
| 逗趣儿 | to amuse; to make sb laugh; to tease | |
| 逗笑 | to amuse; to cause to smile; amusing | |
| 逗闷子 | (dialect) to joke | |
| 逗留 | to stay for a while; to sojourn | |
| 引逗 | to tantalize; to lead on; to tease | |
| 逗引 | to make fun of | |
| 秀逗 | to short-circuit; (fig.) to have a mental lapse; to get one's wires crossed; to be addled | |
| 逗弄 | to tease; to provoke; to play with (a child, animal etc) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 豆 — compare how they read.