ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment
trad. 投壺
Also written 投壺【tóu hú】
Characters in this word
2投
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc), to cast (a ballot), to cast (a glance, a shadow etc), to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine), to send (a letter, a manuscript etc), to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide), to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of, (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
- Pinyin
- tóu
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 3391 of 2500
壶
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pot, classifier for bottled liquid
- Pinyin
- hú
- Traditional
- 壺
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 22044 of 2500