Read Edit View history 陡 dǒu HSK7 steep Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 走 represents the sound. Components 阝 阝 Meaning component fù hill, place 阝 is a component form of 阜. 走 走 Sound component zǒu walk Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangtoːʔ Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang