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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 57047, composition)

  1. throw, cast, fling, pitch
  2. jump
  3. (literary) to go toward

References

  • KangXi: page 421, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1842, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6295

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/dəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəw/
Li
Rong
/du/
Wang
Li
/dəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ duw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ˤo/
English throw

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. 11716
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doː/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to throw
  2. to discard
  3. abandon

Readings

Counter

(hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. (baseball) pitches

Korean

Hanja

(tu) (hangeul , revised tu, McCune-Reischauer t'u, Yale thwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đầu, nhầu)

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