漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
徒: on foot, junior
Also: emptiness, vanity, futility, uselessness, ephemeral thing, gang, set, party, people
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
彳 carries the meaning · 走 is drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
トto · on'yomi · in compounds
- 生徒せいとstudent
- 教徒きょうとbeliever (religion)
- 信徒しんとbeliever (religion)
- 使徒しとapostle
- 暴徒ぼうとinsurgent, rioter
- 徒労とろうfruitless effort
- 徒歩とほtravel by foot [n.]
- 徒弟制度とていせいどapprentice system
Also read いたずら, あだ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Take the first step on your journey! These three quick strokes show the left side of a bustling street or a person taking a brisk step forward.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side徒 on foot · 彳
vs赴 proceed · 卜In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tú
Same form: 徒 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 徒 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 徒 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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