Chinese Notes

徒 tú

tú noun apprentice; disciple
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 徒弟 (Guoyu '徒' n 4; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 4)
tú noun follower; believer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 信徒 (Guoyu '徒' n 3; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 5)
tú adverb only
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 仅 (Guoyu '徒' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 6; XHZD '徒' 3)
tú verb to go by foot; to walk
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 步行 (Guoyu '徒' v; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1; Unihan '徒'; XHZD '徒' 1)
tú adjective empty
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 空 (Guoyu '徒' adj; XHZD '徒' 2)
tú noun a [bad] person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 匪徒 'bandit' (Guoyu '徒' n 2; XHZD '徒' 7)
tú noun infantry
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 步卒 (Guoyu '徒' n 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1a)
tú noun a pawn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 1b)
tú noun a conscript; a corvee; a convict doing forced labor
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '徒' n 5; Kroll 2015 '徒' 3)
tú noun a group; a crowd
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4)
tú noun a companion; a colleague
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4a)
tú adverb in vain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, the idiom 徒讬空言 'vainly relying on empty words' (Guoyu '徒' adv 2; Kroll 2015 '徒' 5)
tú adverb unexpectedly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 竟然 (Guoyu '徒' adv 3)

Contained in

尊师爱徒(尊師愛徒) title of a Daoist priest; revered master
有期徒刑 limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
囚徒 a prisoner
教徒 a disciple; a follower of a religion
徒步路径(徒步路徑) hiking trail
基督教徒 a Christian
达尔文学徒(達爾文學徒) Darwinian
道教徒 a Daoist; a follower of Daoism
徒劳无功(徒勞無功) to work to no avail
徒自惊扰(徒自驚擾) to alarm oneself unnecessarily
暴徒 bandit; thug; ruffian
叛徒 traitor; rebel; renegade; insurgent
徒拥虚名(徒擁虛名) to possess an undeserved reputation
好色之徒 lecher; womanizer; dirty old man
徒工 apprentice; trainee worker
博徒 gambler
基督徒 a Christian
学徒(學徒) an apprentice; a disciple
徒有虚名(徒有虛名) with an undeserved reputation; unwarranted fame; nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
师徒(師徒) master and disciple ; soldiers; troops
老大徒伤悲(老大徒傷悲) vain regrets of old age
徒讬空言(徒託空言) vainly relying on empty words
高徒 brilliant student
新教徒 Protestant
酒徒 drunkard
徒手画(徒手畫) freehand drawing
浅近之徒(淺近之徒) a superficial person
奸徒 a crafty villain
家徒四壁 with only four bare walls for a home; very poor; wretched
佛徒 a Buddhist; a Buddhist disciple
印度教徒 a Hindu
徒劳无益(徒勞無益) futile endeavor
徒裼 barefooted and barebreasted
登徒子 Dengtu Zi, famous lecherous character / lecher / skirt-chaser
异教徒(異教徒) member of another religion; heathen; pagan; heretic; apostate
不法之徒 illegal bandits
徒步区(徒步區) car-free zone; pedestrian zone
宗教徒 adherent of religion; disciple
酒色之徒 follower of wine and women; dissolute person
名师出高徒(名師出高徒) A famous teacher trains a fine student . A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
门徒(門徒) a disciple
徒劳(徒勞) futile
绛帐授徒(絳帳授徒) to teach students from behind a crimson curtain
司徒 Situ ; minister of education; director of instruction
信徒 a disciple; a believer
徒步 to travel on foot; to walk
好事之徒 busybody
不逞之徒 desperado

Also contained in

安徒生、司徒雷登、丹徒

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Collocations

徒四十 (徒四十) 徒四十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 52
徒二十 (徒二十) 徒二十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 50
徒八 (徒八) 徒八人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 29
徒百 (徒百) 徒百有二十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 25
徒八十 (徒八十) 徒八十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 25
徒四 (徒四) 徒四人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 22
徒十 (徒十) 徒十有六人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 22
车徒 (車徒) 因田獵而選車徒焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧南有嘉魚之什‧車攻 Minor odes of the kingdom - Nan You Jia Yu Zhi Shen - Che Gong — count: 18
徒六十 (徒六十) 徒六十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 10
公徒 (公徒) 公徒三萬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 10