Chinese Notes

徒 tú

tú noun apprentice; disciple
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 徒弟 (Guoyu '徒' n 4; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 4)
tú noun follower; believer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 信徒 (Guoyu '徒' n 3; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 5)
tú adverb only
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 仅 (Guoyu '徒' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 6; XHZD '徒' 3)
tú verb to go by foot; to walk
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 步行 (Guoyu '徒' v; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1; Unihan '徒'; XHZD '徒' 1)
tú adjective empty
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 空 (Guoyu '徒' adj; XHZD '徒' 2)
tú noun a [bad] person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 匪徒 'bandit' (Guoyu '徒' n 2; XHZD '徒' 7)
tú noun infantry
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 步卒 (Guoyu '徒' n 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1a)
tú noun a pawn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 1b)
tú noun a conscript; a corvee; a convict doing forced labor
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '徒' n 5; Kroll 2015 '徒' 3)
tú noun a group; a crowd
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4)
tú noun a companion; a colleague
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4a)
tú adverb in vain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, the idiom 徒讬空言 'vainly relying on empty words' (Guoyu '徒' adv 2; Kroll 2015 '徒' 5)
tú adverb unexpectedly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 竟然 (Guoyu '徒' adv 3)

Contained in

老大徒伤悲(老大徒傷悲) vain regrets of old age
饕餮之徒 glutton; gourmand; by extension, person who is greedy for power, money, sex etc
徒具 to only have
骗徒(騙徒) cheat; swindler
佛教徒 a Buddhist
绛帐授徒(絳帳授徒) to teach students from behind a crimson curtain
不逞之徒 desperado
基督徒 a Christian
回教徒 Muslim
圣徒(聖徒) saint; tzaddik; tzadik; zadik; sadiq
家徒四壁 with only four bare walls for a home; very poor; wretched
摩尔门教徒(摩爾門教徒) Mormons
徒步 to travel on foot; to walk
徒步旅行 hiking
授徒 to accept students
徒拥虚名(徒擁虛名) to possess an undeserved reputation
徒步路径(徒步路徑) hiking trail
新教徒 Protestant
酒色之徒 follower of wine and women; dissolute person
徒跣 to go bearfoot
奸徒 a crafty villain
亡命之徒 runaway; desperate criminal; fugitive
暴徒 bandit; thug; ruffian
无期徒刑(無期徒刑) life imprisonment
不法之徒 illegal bandits
叛徒 traitor; rebel; renegade; insurgent
清教徒 Puritan
有其师，必有其徒(有其師，必有其徒) As the teacher, so the pupil.
囚徒 a prisoner
徒有虚名(徒有虛名) with an undeserved reputation; unwarranted fame; nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
徒裼 barefooted and barebreasted
佛徒 a Buddhist; a Buddhist disciple
登徒子 Dengtu Zi, famous lecherous character / lecher / skirt-chaser
学徒制(學徒制) apprenticeship
徒呼负负(徒呼負負) to feel powerless and full of shame
教徒 a disciple; a follower of a religion
恶徒(惡徒) hoodlum; bad guy
印度教徒 a Hindu
匪徒 bandit
徒手 empty handed; with bare hands; unarmed; freehand
党徒(黨徒) clique member; henchman; gang member; crony
道教徒 a Daoist; a follower of Daoism
徒工 apprentice; trainee worker
徒然 in vain; for nothing ; only
异教徒(異教徒) member of another religion; heathen; pagan; heretic; apostate
天主教徒 a Catholic
匪徒集团(匪徒集團) gangster
狡徒 a fraudster

Also contained in

司徒雷登、左徒、安徒生

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Collocations

徒四十 (徒四十) 徒四十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 52
徒二十 (徒二十) 徒二十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 50
徒八 (徒八) 徒八人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 29
徒百 (徒百) 徒百有二十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 25
徒八十 (徒八十) 徒八十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 25
徒四 (徒四) 徒四人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 22
徒十 (徒十) 徒十有六人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 22
车徒 (車徒) 因田獵而選車徒焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧南有嘉魚之什‧車攻 Minor odes of the kingdom - Nan You Jia Yu Zhi Shen - Che Gong — count: 18
徒六十 (徒六十) 徒六十人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 10
公徒 (公徒) 公徒三萬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 10