Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dú
English
- writing tablet
- documents
- documents, books
- wooden tablets or slips for writing in ancient times
粵語
- 古代用以書寫文字嘅木片。
Variants
Words containing 牘
- 尺牘cek3 duk6
(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
- 文牘man4 duk6
paperwork
- 書牘syu1 duk6
letter
- 案牘on3 duk6
official documents or correspondence
- 簡牘gaan2 duk6
bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times)
- 文牘主義man4 duk6 zyu2 ji6
red tape
- 長篇累牘coeng4 pin1 leoi6 duk6
(of a text) very lengthy (idiom)
- 連篇累牘lin4 pin1 leoi6 duk6
(of a piece of writing) long and tedious (idiom)