毒 (dú) — Chinese Character

毒

dú

poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics

Radical: 母 HSK 5 n, a, v pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

毒 decomposes into the following components:

龶母

Semantic component: 龶; phonetic component: 母.

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 毒.

下毒

xià dú

中毒

zhòng dú

丹毒

dān dú

冰毒

bīng dú

刻毒

kè dú

剧毒

jù dú

吸毒

xī dú

屠毒

tú dú

巫毒

wū dú

心毒

xīn dú

怨毒

yuàn dú

恶毒

è dú

Characters that share the radical 母.

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