in English

tāo
bow case or scabbard / to hide / military strategy

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 韜 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 韜 Clerical script 東漢

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

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