in English

tǎo verb
to invite / to provoke / to demand or ask for / to send armed forces to suppress / to denounce or condemn / to marry (a woman) / to discuss or study

Stroke order

Le caractère 讨 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 讨 Show the animation
Le caractère 討 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 討, the traditional character: 讨 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 不许讨论。

    No discussion.

  • 他讨厌坐飞机旅行。

    He hates air travel.

  • 他越是奉承我,我越觉得他讨厌。

    The more he flatters, the less I like him.

  • 大部分程序员讨厌调试,设置故障比纠正它们有意思多了。

    Most developers hate debugging; it's more fun to create bugs than to correct them.

  • 她好像很讨厌你。

    It seems she hates you.

  • 她很讨厌这样的想法。

    Such an idea is abhorrent to her.

  • 宁愿做自己而被人讨厌,也不要因为虚假而被人喜欢。

    Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not.

  • 我不太喜欢他,其实我讨厌他。

    I don't like him much, in fact I hate him.

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