秃 tū bald

源How it came to be

Grain set on a standing figure, a head with a few stalks left and the rest of the field cut. The joke is in the drawing, and it is three thousand years old.

用How it is used

• Bald / bare / blunt - 秃头 (tūtóu) bald head, 秃顶 (tūdǐng) balding on top, 秃山 (tūshān) a barren, treeless hill, 秃笔 (tūbǐ) a worn-out brush.
• 秃鹫 (tūjiù) is a vulture. Also internet slang 谢顶/秃 for programmers 'going bald' from overwork.

字Characters built with 秃

• 颓 ruined