táo
run away; flee; escape
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他逃跑了。
tā táo páo le.
He ran away.
我们必须逃离这里。
wǒ men bì xū táo lí zhè lǐ.
We must escape from here.
她逃过了一劫。
tā táo guò le yī jié.
She escaped a disaster.
追 (zhuī)
chase
迎 (yíng)
welcome
The Chinese character 逃 (táo) for "to escape" is composed of two parts: the radical 辵 (chuò), which indicates movement, and the phonetic component 夭 (yāo), which suggests the idea of "running away" or "fleeing". The character 夭 originally meant "to die young" or "to have a short life", but it also came to be used in the sense of "to escape" or "to avoid". The combination of these two components creates the character 逃, which conveys the idea of running away or escaping from danger or an undesirable situation.
