椭 (tuǒ): ellipse
椭 (tuǒ) is a Chinese character meaning “ellipse.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (semantic) and 陏 (phonetic). It ranks #3058 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 椭 wood. Its radical form 木 (tree) appears in many related characters such as 木 (mù, wood/tree), 林 (lín, forest, woods), 森 (sēn, forest (dense)).
Definitions
- ellipse
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 椭圆noun | tuǒ yuán | oval |
| 椭圆形noun | tuǒ yuán xíng | oval |
| 椭圆形办公室proper-noun | tuǒ yuán xíng bàn gōng shì | Oval Office |
| 参考椭球体 | cān kǎo tuǒ qiú tǐ | reference ellipsoid (geodesy) |
| 椭圆积分 | tuǒ yuán jī fēn | (math.) elliptic integral |
| 椭圆曲线noun | tuǒ yuán qū xiàn | (math.) elliptic curve |
| 椭圆机noun | tuǒ yuán jī | elliptical machine (exercise) |
| 椭圆函数noun | tuǒ yuán hán shù | (math.) elliptic function |
| 椭球noun | tuǒ qiú | (math.) ellipsoid |
椭 appears in 9 compound words: 89 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 11 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 椭 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
工人们正在砍伐病椭，防止虫害蔓延。
gōng rén men zhèng zài kǎn fá bìng tuǒ , fáng zhǐ chóng hài màn yán .
Workers are cutting down diseased trees to prevent the spread of pests.
前腔也是表面光滑的纯色塑料，腔体类似扁圆而非高饱满度的椭圆形。
qián qiāng yě shì biǎo miàn guāng huá de chún sè sù liào , qiāng tǐ lèi sì piān yuán ér fēi gāo bǎo mǎn dù de tuǒ yuán xíng .
The front chamber is also made of solid-colored plastic with a smooth surface; the chamber is more flattened and round in shape rather than a highly rounded oval.
走近一看，一块半椭圆形岩石上，果然浮现出弯弯曲曲的线条。
zǒu jìn yī kàn , yī kuài bàn tuǒ yuán xíng yán shí shàng , guǒ rán fú xiàn chū wān wān qū qū de xiàn tiáo .
Upon closer inspection, I could indeed see winding lines etched on a semicircular rock.
首代苹果眼镜将采用椭圆形摄像头设计，提供多种颜色与镜框风格。
shǒu dài píng guǒ yǎn jìng jiāng cǎi yòng tuǒ yuán xíng shè xiàng tóu shè jì , tí gōng duō zhǒng yán sè yǔ jìng kuàng fēng gé .
The first-generation Apple Glasses will feature an oval camera design and be available in a variety of colors and frame styles.
在山顶建筑正东约1200米的海边，考古人员发现一处依山体夯筑的椭圆形大型台基。
zài shān dǐng jiàn zhù zhèng dōng yuē 1 2 0 0 mǐ de hǎi biān , kǎo gǔ rén yuán fā xiàn yī chǔ yī shān tǐ bèn zhù de tuǒ yuán xíng dà xíng tái jī .
About 1,200 meters due east of the building on the mountaintop, near the coast, archaeologists discovered a large, elliptical platform built by rammed earth against the mountainside.
Character Family
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