度 (dù)
Degree (temperature/angle); extent
How 度 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 广 — house on cliff
- Traditional
- 度
- Simplified
- 度 (unchanged)
Components
- 广 house on cliff
- 廿 two hands/twenty
- 又 right hand
度 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- dù
- to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit
- duó
- to estimate
Common words using 度
- 速度 sùdù
- speed; rate; velocity
- 一度 yīdù
- for a time; at one time; one time
- 再度 zàidù
- once more; once again; one more time
- 制度 zhìdù
- system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 力度 lìdu
- strength; vigor; dynamism
- 印度 yìndù
- India
- 國度 guódù
- country
- 季度 jìdù
- quarter of a year; season (sports)
- 尺度 chǐdù
- scale; yardstick
- 年度 niándù
- year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual
- 度假 dùjià
- to go on vacation
- 度過 dùguò
- to pass; to spend (time); to survive
度 in a sentence
今天氣溫三十度。
Jīntiān qìwēn sānshí dù.
“The temperature is 30 degrees today.”
How common is 度?
度 is the 184th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 54.1% of all running text.
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