HSK 6 · Clothing

秃 tū “bald” in Chinese

Traditional 禿

What 秃 means

  1. bald
  2. bare
  3. bald (lacking hair or feathers)
  4. barren
  5. denuded
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • blunt (lacking a point)
  • (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory
  • lacking something

How to say 秃

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale秃tū1st tone, high and level

秃 in a sentence

  1. 他是个很安静的人，头顶有点秃。

    Tā shì ge hěn ānjìng de rén, tóudǐng yǒudiǎn tū.

    He’s a quiet man, a little bald on top.

    Sentence #335080 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他很年轻就开始秃头了。

    Tā hěn niánqīng jiù kāishǐ tūtóu le.

    He started going bald quite young.

    Sentence #848969 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 你有点秃顶了。

    Nǐ yǒudiǎn tūdǐng le.

    You’re going a bit bald.

    Sentence #5248366 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 秃 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 秃 (tū) with each of its parts in a different colour
秃tūbald
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 几table · jī

How to write 秃

秃 7 strokes

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秃 (tū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 秃 (tū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 秃

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FAQs

秃 (tū) means “bald” or “bare”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tū: tū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 秃 is written 禿. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 秃 from the suggestions. Typing tu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
秃 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.