duǒ

to hide

to dodge; to avoid

body (身) + sound duǒ (朵) = tuck your body away to hide

身 grounds the character in the body — the thing you tuck away or twist aside when hiding. 朵 mainly lends the sound duǒ and does not carry the meaning.

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BodySemantic

下雨了,我们快去树下一躲。

xià yǔ le , wǒ men kuài qù shù xià duǒ yī duǒ 。

It's raining; let's quickly go shelter under a tree for a bit.

他不想见那个人,就在房间里不出来。

tā bù xiǎng jiàn nà ge rén , jiù duǒ zài fáng jiān lǐ bù chū lái 。

He didn't want to see that person, so he hid in his room and wouldn't come out.

Words with 躲

闪躲

shǎn duǒ

to dodge

明枪好躲,暗箭难防

míng qiāng hǎo duǒ , àn jiàn nán fáng

lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies

明枪易躲,暗箭难防

míng qiāng yì duǒ , àn jiàn nán fáng

lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies

东躲西闪

dōng duǒ xī shǎn

to dodge about

藏躲

cáng duǒ

to hide

躲不起

duǒ bu qǐ

can't avoid

躲债

duǒ zhài

to dodge a creditor

躲年

duǒ nián

to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)

躲得过初一,躲不过十五

duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ

lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom)

躲懒

duǒ lǎn

to shy away from work

躲清闲

duǒ qīng xián

to avoid external disturbance in order to idle

躲穷

duǒ qióng

to take refuge with a rich relative

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