獨 (dú)
alone/independent/single
How 獨 is written
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Traditional
- 獨
- Simplified
- 独
Components
- 犭 dog
- 罒 net
- 勹 wrap
- 虫 insect
Common words using 獨
- 孤獨 gūdú
- lonely; solitary
- 獨家 dújiā
- exclusive
- 獨特 dútè
- unique; distinct; having special characteristics
- 獨立 dúlì
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- 獨自 dúzì
- alone
- 唯獨 wéidú
- only; just (i.e. it is only that...); all except
- 單獨 dāndú
- alone; by oneself; on one's own
- 情有獨鍾 qíngyǒudúzhōng
- to have a feeling for sth (affection, sympathy, passion etc)
- 情有獨鐘 qíngyǒudúzhōng
- to have a feeling for sth (affection, sympathy, passion etc)
- 特立獨行 tèlìdúxíng
- to be unconventional; independence of action
- 獨一無二 dúyīwúèr
- unique and unmatched (idiom); unrivalled; nothing compares with it
- 獨來獨往 dúláidúwǎng
- coming and going alone (idiom); a lone operator; keeping to oneself; unsociable
獨 in a sentence
他從大學開始就獨立生活了。
Tā cóng dàxué kāishǐ jiù dúlì shēnghuó le.
“He has been living independently since college.”
How common is 獨?
獨 is the 626th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.6% of all running text.
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