塗 — Chinese character
塗
tú
to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
- Pinyin
- tú
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 涂 土
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 余
- Simplified
- 涂
- Japanese
- 塗 as a kanji
塗 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Art of War 2 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 16
- Analects 17.1
- Analects 17.14
- Art of War 8.3
- Art of War 11.49
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.9
- Mencius 5B.1
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.