饕
饕 — do
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 탐할 도
- Romanization
- do
- English
- gluttonous, greedy, covetous
- Mandarin
- tāo
- Japanese on'yomi
- トウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- むさぼ.る
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- 食 (184, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9955
Parts that make up 饕
How 饕 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 饕 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 號, 食.
Japanese words with 饕
- 饕餮とうてつ taotie (Chinese mythological creature commonly represented as a motif on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties); covetousness; greed
- 饕餮文とうてつもん taotie motif (on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties)
Other hanja read “도”
Other hanja with radical 食
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