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塗

简涂 · 繁塗

Mandarin · pinyin tú

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塗: Look up this written character
涂: tú · surname; name of certain rivers

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2 · tu2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

caa4 · tou4

Cantonese word readings for 塗. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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mud; shoal
to daub; to smear; to apply; to paint; to plaster
to cross out; to blot out
to scribble; to scrawl over
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 途 (tú, “road”)
(Southern Min, Puxian Min) earth; ground
(alt. form 嵞, 峹) used in 塗山／涂山 (Túshān)
a surname

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