Entry
  1. Noun

    taotie (Chinese mythological creature commonly represented as a motif on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties)

    Historical term

  2. covetousness; greed; avarice

    Archaic

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

be greedy, be ravenous

Kun
むさぼ.る
On
トウ
Strokes
22
Radical
eat

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (9)
CodeReference
2-13-9SKIP code
8b13.1The Kanji Dictionary
6173.2Four corner code
9955Unicode hex code
1-81-35JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6717New Nelson (John Haig)
44426Morohashi
tao1Pinyin reading
doKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

voracious, gluttonous

Kun
むさぼ.る
On
テツ
Strokes
18
Radical
eat

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (9)
CodeReference
2-9-9SKIP code
8b9.2The Kanji Dictionary
1873.2Four corner code
992eUnicode hex code
1-81-24JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6703New Nelson (John Haig)
44268Morohashi
tie4Pinyin reading
cheolKorean reading