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秃

tū

bald; bare

A bare dry hillside next to one small green tree
Memory picture

Character

秃 tū

Strokes
7
Radical
禾 — cereal, grain, rice
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 几 small table
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 几年干旱之后,这片山坡几乎秃了,很难在短期内恢复植被。 Jǐ nián gānhàn zhīhòu, zhè piàn shānpō jīhū tū le, hěn nán zài duǎnqī nèi huīfù zhíbèi. After several years of drought, this hillside has become almost bare and will be hard to revegetate in the short term.
  • 爷爷今年七十岁了,头顶已经秃了。 Yéye jīnnián qīshí suì le, tóudǐng yǐjīng tū le. Grandpa is seventy this year, and the top of his head has already gone bald.
  • 冬天一到,山上的树都秃了,只剩下一根根树枝。 Dōngtiān yī dào, shān shang de shù dōu tū le, zhǐ shèngxià yī gēn gēn shùzhī. As soon as winter comes, the trees on the mountain all turn bare, with only their branches left.

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