兔 (tù) · rabbit, hare

Measure Word

一只兔 zhī

Meanings

1 rabbit
2 hare

Examples

HSK 3

兔子跑得很快。

Tùzi pǎo de hěnkuài.

Rabbits run very fast.

HSK 6

我属兔。

Wǒ shǔ tù.

I was born in the year of the rabbit.

HSK 7-9

龟兔赛跑是一个很有名的故事。

Guītù sàipǎo shì yígè 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 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 via the leg-shape at the base. Compare 免 - same outline minus the tail-dot.

Filed under radical 儿 (ér, #10) by convention. 儿 is not a separate component in 兔, so no strokes are highlighted.