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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土人土 (GOG), four-corner 40114, composition)

  1. heap, pile, crowd
  2. pile up

References

  • KangXi: page 232, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5211
  • Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 454, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5806

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lus, *rulʔ, *luls
*tuːl
*tuːl
*tuːls
*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
*duːlʔ
*duːl
*stuːlʔ
*zluːl, *sʰluːl
*ŋreːl, *rulʔ
*dul
*dul
*tjul
*tjul
*kljul
*tjul
*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
*djul
*djul

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tuei⁵⁵/
Harbin /tuei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tuei²¹/
Jinan /tuei²¹³/
/t͡suei²¹³/
Qingdao /tue²¹³/
/t͡sue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tuei²⁴/
Xi'an /tuei²¹/
Xining /tuɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tuei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tuei³¹/
Ürümqi /tuei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tuei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tuei⁵⁵/
Kunming /tuei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tuəi³¹/
Hefei /te²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tuei¹¹/
/t͡suei¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suei¹³/
/tuæ¹³/
Hohhot /tuei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /te⁵³/
Suzhou /te̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tui³³/
Wenzhou /tai³³/
Hui Shexian /tɛ³¹/
Tunxi /tə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tei³³/
Xiangtan /təi³³/
Gan Nanchang /tui⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /toi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /toi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tøy⁵³/
Nanning /tui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tøy⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tui⁵⁵/
/tu⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tøy⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /to⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tui³³/
/tu³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdui²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuoi/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/twəj/
Li
Rong
/tuᴀi/
Wang
Li
/tuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
duī
Middle
Chinese
‹ twoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.tˤuj/
English heap; mound

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17705
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuːl/
Notes

Noun

  1. heap, pile, mound

Classifier

  1. Classifier for piles of things: pile, lump, heap, clump, mound
       duī   a pile of dirt

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(toe) (hangeul , revised toe, McCune-Reischauer t'oe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đôi, chui, đồi, doi, nhoi, duôi, đòi)

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