杜

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#1,275 most
frequent character
surname Du

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

杜 pairs 木, a tree, as its picture part with 土 tǔ, which supplies the sound. It first named a tree, the birchleaf pear. Later it appeared in the names of plants and birds, and it also came to mean to stop.

Drawn as: a tree

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Same Characters, Different Readings

杜dù
birchleaf pear (tree), to stop

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