禿
tū HSK7

bald

秃 (禿) tū
bald adjective
lacking hair on the head or feathers on the body

他的头顶全秃了。

tā de tóu​dǐng quán tū le.

He is completely bald on top.

bare noun
barren, denuded, or lacking vegetation

这是一座寸草不生的秃山。

zhè shì yī zuò cùn​cǎo​bù​shēng de tū shān.

This is a barren mountain where not a single blade of grass grows.

blunt adjective
lacking a point or having a worn-down tip

这支铅笔用秃了，需要削一下。

zhèi zhī qiān​bǐ yòng tū le, xū​yào xiāo yī​xià.

This pencil has become blunt and needs sharpening.

unsatisfactory adjective
of a piece of writing, lacking an essential part or having an abrupt ending

这篇文章结尾太秃，交代得不清楚。

zhè piān wén​zhāng jié​wěi tài tū, jiāo​dài de bù qīng​chu.

The ending of this article is too abrupt and lacks clarity.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,521st most common 18.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,436th most common 9.52 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.97 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.16 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
秃
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+79BF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)