tú yā

Traditional: 塗鴉

涂鸦 (tú yā) is a Chinese word meaning “graffiti; scrawl; poor calligraphy”.

Meanings

  1. 1graffiti
  2. 2scrawl
  3. 3poor calligraphy
  4. 4to write badly
  5. 5to scribble

Characters in 涂鸦

涂tú · to apply (paint etc)鸦yā · crow

Related words

涂to apply (paint etc)涂surname Tu涂variant of 途[tu2]糊涂muddled一塌糊涂muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition乌鸦crow鸦片(loanword) opium涂料paint一败涂地lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom)老糊涂dotard糊里糊涂confused糊里糊涂variant of 糊裡糊塗|糊里糊涂[hu2 li5 hu2 tu2]

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