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堆

堆

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 堆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 堆
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 堆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都回切
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 堆
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 堆
Reading # 1/1
No. 17705
Phonetic
component		 隹
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 磓
Old
Chinese		 /*tuːl/
Notes 見史記

Noun

堆

  1. heap, pile, mound

Classifier

堆

  1. Classifier for piles of things: pile, lump, heap, clump, mound
    一堆泥  ―  yī duī ní  ―  a pile of dirt

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

堆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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