妥

suitable; adequate; ready; settled

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,081 U+59A5

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A hand 爫 over a woman 女, representing control

components: 爫女

appropriate · Heisig RSH #1901

vulture + 女 woman

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 妥 as their sound component

These characters all use 妥 (tuǒ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
妥 sound component	tuǒ	secure, sound; satisfactory, appropriate
绥	suí	to soothe, to pacify, to appease
荽	suī	coriander
馁	něi	famished, hungry, starving
浽	suī	drizzle, light rain

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
巴比妥	bā bǐ tuǒ	barbitone; barbital
陀思妥耶夫斯基	Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī	Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu…
威妥玛拼法	Wēi Tuǒ mǎ pīn fǎ	Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
威妥玛拼音	Wēi Tuǒ mǎ pīn yīn	Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
陀思妥也夫斯基	Tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī	Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu…
不妥协	bù tuǒ xié	uncompromising
异戊巴比妥	yì wù bā bǐ tuǒ	amobarbital (drug) (loanword)
不妥	bù tuǒ	not proper; inappropriate
曼妥思	Màn tuǒ sī	Mentos, a brand of candy produced by European company Perfetti Van Melle
威妥玛	Wēi Tuǒ mǎ	Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wa…
妥实	tuǒ shí	proper; appropriate
妥当	tuǒ dang	appropriate; proper; ready
妥瑞症	Tuǒ ruì zhèng	Tourette syndrome
收妥	shōu tuǒ	(commerce) to have received (goods, money)
妥投	tuǒ tóu	(of mail or a package) to have been successfully delivered
待乙妥	dài yǐ tuǒ	DEET (insect repellent) (loanword)
妥善	tuǒ shàn	appropriate; proper
办妥	bàn tuǒ	to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through
戊巴比妥钠	wù bā bǐ tuǒ nà	pentasorbital sodium (a sedative)
备妥	bèi tuǒ	to get sth ready