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兜
兜
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Translingual
Han character
兜 (radical 10 儿+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹女竹山 (HVHU), four-corner 77217).
References
- KangXi: page 125, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1386
- Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 27
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 273, character 16
- Unihan data for U+515C
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
兜 | |
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Alternative forms
- (archaic variant) 兠
Glyph origin
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Old Chinese | |
| 兜 | *toː |
| 篼 | *toː |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𠑹 (“cover”) + 皃 (“head”): a helmet.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄡ
- Wade-Giles: tou1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dou
- IPA (key): /toʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dau1
- Yale: dāu
- Cantonese Pinyin: dau1
- IPA (key): /tɐu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: têu
- Hakka Romanization System: deu´
- Hagfa Pinyim: deu1
- IPA: /te̯u²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tau
- Tâi-lô: tau
- Phofsit Daibuun: daw
- IPA (Xiamen): /taʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /taʊ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /taʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /taʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /taʊ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 兜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
dōu |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tuw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*tˤo/ |
| English | helmet, hood |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 兜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2449 |
| Phonetic component |
兜 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
兠 |
| Old Chinese |
/*toː/ |
Definitions
兜
- helmet, hood
- helmet-shaped
- to wrap, to encase
- (obsolete) armor
- to carry in a wrap
- bag, pouch
- to pocket: to keep, retain; to acquire dishonestly
- to reach
- to move around; to move in a circle; to canvass, to solicit
- to take responsibility for
- to relate in detail
- to peddle, to hawk
Compounds
References
- "兜" in 漢典.
- "꜀兜" in S. Well Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language (1889), Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
- "兜 dōu" in Rich Harbaugh's Chinese Characters (1999), New Haven: Yale University Press.
- "兜" in Paul Grayon's Pin1yin1 (2011).
- "兜" in William H. Baxter & al.'s Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction, Ver. 1.1 (2014), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
- “Entry #6941”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Vietnamese
Han character
兜 (đâu)
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