涂 — Chinese character
涂
tú
to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
- Pinyin
- tú
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 氵 余
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 余
- Traditional
- 塗
Common words with 涂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 糊涂 (糊塗) | hú tu | muddled; silly |
| 涂鸦 (塗鴉) | tú yā | graffiti; scrawl |
| 涂料 (塗料) | tú liào | paint |
| 涂抹 (塗抹) | tú mǒ | to paint; to smear |
| 一塌糊涂 (一塌糊塗) | yī tā hú tu | muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles |
| 涂层 (塗層) | tú céng | protective layer; coating |
| 涂装 (塗裝) | tú zhuāng | painted ornament; livery (on airline or company vehicle) |
| 一败涂地 (一敗塗地) | yī bài tú dì | lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat |
| 滩涂 (灘塗) | tān tú | mudflat |
| 稀里糊涂 (稀裏糊塗) | xī li hú tu | muddleheaded; careless |
| 涂改 (塗改) | tú gǎi | to alter (text); to change by painting over |
| 糊里糊涂 (糊裡糊塗) | hú li hú tú | confused; vague |
English words written with 涂
涂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 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.