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肚dù

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肚

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Shuowen

Belly. The character is formed by combining the flesh radical 月 (indicating a body part) with the phonetic 土, creating a phono-semantic compound that originally meant the belly of an animal. The use of 月 signals its connection to flesh, while 土 provides the sound, explaining its written form.

Pinyin

dù· HSK 2