驼 (tuó): hump or hunchbacked, camel
驼 (tuó) is a Chinese character meaning “hump or hunchbacked.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 马 (semantic) and 它 (phonetic). It ranks #2678 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 驼 horse. Its radical form 马 (horse) appears in many related characters such as 马 (mǎ, horse), 骂 (mà, to scold), 驾 (jià, to drive).
Definitions
- hump or hunchbacked
- camel
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骆驼 | luò tuo | camel,匹,頭|头) |
| 驼背adjective | tuó bèi | hunchbacked |
| 驼鹿noun | tuó lù | elk |
| 驼峰noun | tuó fēng | hump of a camel |
| 驼子 | tuó zi | hunchback |
| 驼色 | tuó sè | light tan (color) |
| 驼峰命名法noun | tuó fēng mìng míng fǎ | (computing) CamelCase |
| 压死骆驼的最后一根稻草 | yā sǐ luò tuo de zuì hòu yī gēn dào cǎo | the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) |
| 瘦死的骆驼比马大proverb | shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) |
| 大羊驼noun | dà yáng tuó | llama |
| 小羊驼noun | xiǎo yáng tuó | (zoology) vicuña |
| 微驼 | wēi tuó | stooping |
| 单峰驼noun | dān fēng tuó | dromedary |
| 锅驼机 | guō tuó jī | portable steam engine |
| 骆驼祥子 | luò tuo xiáng zi | Camel Xiangzi, novel by Lao She 老舍 |
驼 appears in 23 compound words: 35 as the first character, 43 as the last, and 22 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 驼 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
西安一唐墓出土制作精湛三彩器 三彩骆驼再现丝路商贸往来
xī ān yī táng mù chū tǔ zhì zuò jīng zhàn sān cǎi qì sān cǎi luò tuó zài xiàn sī lù shāng mào wǎng lái
Exquisitely Crafted Sancai Ware Unearthed from a Tang Dynasty Tomb in Xi'an; Sancai Camel Brings the Silk Road's Trade Exchanges to Life
驼铃回响处,乡音舞步起:舞剧《万里茶道》的欧亚古道回声
tuó líng huí xiǎng chǔ , xiāng yīn wǔ bù qǐ : wǔ jù wàn lǐ chá dào de ōu yà gǔ dào huí shēng
Where the Bells of the Camels Echo, Local Melodies and Dance Steps Take Flight: Echoes of the Ancient Eurasian Trade Route in the Dance Drama *The Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road*
在这期间,老舍的《骆驼祥子》等六部作品被译成英文在美出版。
zài zhè qī jiān , lǎo shě de luò tuó xiáng zǐ děng liù bù zuò pǐn bèi yì chéng yīng wén zài měi chū bǎn .
During this period, six of Lao She's works, including *Camel Xiangzi*, were translated into English and published in the United States.
中新网 记者 韩辉 摄 片中的“骆驼”意象同样收获大量关注。
zhōng xīn wǎng jì zhě hán huī shè piàn zhōng de luò tuó yì xiàng tóng yàng shōu huò dà liàng guān zhù .
Photo by Han Hui, China News Network. The image of the “camel” in the photo has also attracted a great deal of attention.
Character Family
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