Chinese symbol for “pottery”
陶
táo
pottery; pleased
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pottery is 陶 (táo), defined as: pottery; pleased.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “pottery”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 陶器 | táo qì | pottery |
| 缶 | fǒu | pottery |
| 陶瓷器 | táo cí qì | pottery; chinaware |
| 陶工 | táo gōng | pottery; potter |
| 匋 | táo | pottery |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 陶.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 陶瓷 | táo cí | pottery and porcelain; ceramics |
| 陶器 | táo qì | pottery |
| 陶醉 | táo zuì | to be infatuated with; to be drunk with; to be enchanted with; to revel in |
| 熏陶 (薰陶) | xūn táo | to seep in; to influence |
| 陶冶 | táo yě | lit. to fire pots and smelt metal; fig. to educate |
| 陶土 | táo tǔ | potter's clay; kaolin |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pottery”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.