兔 (tù): rabbit

Measure Word

一只兔 zhī

Meanings

1 rabbit
2 hare

Examples

我属兔。

Wǒ shǔtù.

I was born in the year of the rabbit.

兔子跑得很快。

Tùzi pǎo de hěnkuài.

Rabbits run very fast.

龟兔赛跑是一个很有名的故事。

Guītùsàipǎo shì yīgè hěn yǒumíng de gùshi.

The Tortoise and the Hare is a very famous story.

Tips

culture

兔 is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals. In Chinese mythology, the Jade Rabbit (玉兔 yùtù) lives on the moon, grinding herbs with a mortar and pestle.

usage

兔 is the literary/single-character form. 兔子 (tùzi) is the everyday word for rabbit.

Components

pictograph

兔 tù

rabbit; hare

Pictograph of a sitting hare in profile: ears at top, body in the middle, legs forming the 儿-like base, with the lower-right dot as the rabbit's stubby tail. Indexed under Kangxi #10 儿 (ér) via the leg-shape at the base. Compare 免 — same outline minus the tail-dot.

Filed under radical 儿 (ér) by convention. 儿 is not a separate component in 兔, so no strokes are highlighted.