独 — Chinese character
独
dú
alone, independent, only, single, solitary
- Pinyin
- dú
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 犭 虫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 虫
- Traditional
- 獨
- Japanese
- 独 as a kanji
Common words with 独
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 独立 (獨立) | dú lì | independent; independence |
| 独特 (獨特) | dú tè | unique; distinctive |
| 单独 (單獨) | dān dú | alone; by oneself |
| 独自 (獨自) | dú zì | alone |
| 孤独 (孤獨) | gū dú | lonely; solitary |
| 独裁 (獨裁) | dú cái | dictatorship |
| 独家 (獨家) | dú jiā | exclusive |
| 独裁者 (獨裁者) | dú cái zhě | dictator; autocrat |
| 独一无二 (獨一無二) | dú yī wú èr | (idiom) unique; unmatched; unrivalled |
| 独有 (獨有) | dú yǒu | to own exclusively; unique to; specific; there is only |
| 独立自主 (獨立自主) | dú lì zì zhǔ | independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination; to act independently |
| 独占 (獨佔) | dú zhàn | variant of 独占 (dú zhàn) |
English words written with 独
- alone
- independent
- unique
- solo
- independence
- exclusive
- lonely
- distinctive
- detached
- solitary
- dictator
- dictatorship
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.