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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木土 (DG), four-corner 44910, composition)

  1. stop, prevent
  2. restrict
  3. A surname.

References

  • KangXi: page 512, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14477
  • Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1157, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+675C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɦljaːʔ
*ʔl'aːʔ, *l'aːʔ
*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ
*l̥ʰaːʔ, *l̥ʰaːs
*l̥ʰaːʔ
*l'aːʔ
*l'aːʔ
*l'aːʔ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tu⁵¹/
Harbin /tu⁵³/
Tianjin /tu⁵³/
Jinan /tu²/
Qingdao /tu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tu³¹²/
Xi'an /tu⁴⁴/
Xining /tv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /tu¹³/
Lanzhou /tu¹³/
Ürümqi /tu²¹³/
Wuhan /təu³⁵/
Chengdu /tu¹³/
Guiyang /tu²¹³/
Kunming /tu²¹²/
Nanjing /tu⁴⁴/
Hefei /tu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /tu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tu³⁵/
Hohhot /tu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zo²³/
Suzhou /dəu³¹/
Hangzhou /du¹³/
Wenzhou /døy³⁵/
Hui Shexian /tʰu²²/
Tunxi /təu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /təu⁵⁵/
/təu¹¹/
Xiangtan /təɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /tʰu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰu⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /tou²²/
Nanning /tu²²/
Hong Kong /tou²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tou²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tou³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdu³³/ ~絕
/ʔdu³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/duoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/doX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɔX/
Li
Rong
/doX/
Wang
Li
/duX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12505
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. careless
  2. woods; grove
  3. Chinese family name "Du"

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

  • 杜撰脱漏 (ずさんだつろう) (zusandatsurō): careless (slipshod) and with many omissions
  •  (もり) (みやこ) (mori no miyako): lit. City of Trees. Nickname for Sendai, Japan
  • 鎮守 (ちんじゅ) (もり) (chinju no mori): grove of the village shrine

Synonyms

Usage notes

杜 is included in a planned expansion of the general use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government.

Noun

(hiragana やまなし, romaji yamanashi)

  1. Wild Japanese pear or mountain pear

Proper noun

(hiragana , romaji To)

  1. 杜甫 (とほ) (toho), a Chinese poet

Korean

Hanja

(du) (hangeul , revised du, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đỗ, đậu, đỏ, đổ, đuã)

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