塗

tú

surname; name of certain rivers

How to write 塗, stroke by stroke

to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street; surname Tu; variant of 途

Pictophonetic: semantic 氵 (water), phonetic 余

Made of 涂 + 土

糊塗hú tumuddled; silly; confused
塗鴉tú yāgraffiti; scrawl; poor calligraphy; to write badly; to scribble
塗料tú liàopaint
老糊塗lǎo hú tudotard
塗抹tú mǒto paint; to smear; to apply (makeup etc); to doodle; to erase; to obliterate
糊裡糊塗hú li hú túconfused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze
一塌糊塗yī tā hú tumuddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles; a total mess
一敗塗地yī bài tú dìlit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
塗去tú qùto obliterate (some words, or part of a picture etc) using correction fluid, ink, paint etc; to paint out; to paint over
塗家tú jiāpainter; artist
塗寫tú xiěto daub; to scribble (graffiti)
塗層tú céngprotective layer; coating

我把起酥油塗抹在鹿肉上。
wǒ bǎ qǐ sū yóu tú mǒ zài lù ròu shàng 。
I daub the venison with shortening.
她把牆壁都塗成了白色。
tā bǎ qiáng bì dōu tú chéng le bái sè 。
She painted the walls white.
她把奶油塗在麵包上。
tā bǎ nǎi yóu tú zài miàn bāo shàng 。
She spread the butter on the bread.
全都一塌糊塗。
quán dōu yì tā hú tú 。
Everything was a mess.
她們把窗框塗成了黃色。
tā mén bǎ chuāng kuàng tú chéng le huáng sè 。
They painted the window frames yellow.