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笃

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dǔ
adjective #32,640

Meanings

  1. 1 sincere; earnest; deeply committed (bound form, mostly in compounds)
  2. 2 (of an illness) serious; critical

Examples

他对学问的态度十分笃实。
Tā duì xuéwèn de tàidù shífēn dǔshí.
His attitude toward scholarship is profoundly earnest.
病情危笃,家属请尽快赶到。
Bìngqíng wēi dǔ, jiāshǔ qǐng jǐnkuài gǎn dào.
The patient's condition is critical; family members please come as soon as possible.

Tips

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Literary and bound — rarely stands alone in modern speech. Lives mostly in compounds: 笃信 (firmly believe), 笃实 (earnest), 笃爱 (deeply love), 危笃 (critically ill), 笃定 (definite, certain). The seriousness-of-illness sense survives in 危笃.
history
Tsinghua University's motto 自强不息, 厚德载物 sits alongside 校训 'spirit' words including 笃实 in many Chinese university mottoes — 笃 has carried Confucian connotations of unshaken sincerity since the 《论语》, where 笃信好学 ('earnestly believe and love learning') is one of Confucius' central virtues.

Stroke Order

笃 dǔ