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沱
沱
See also: 沲
Translingual
Han character
沱 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水十心 (EJP), four-corner 33111, composition ⿰氵它)
- used in placenames in Sichuan province (石盘沱, 金钢沱)
- tearful
- to branch (of a river)
- rivers, streams, waterways
- flow
References
- KangXi: page 613, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17243
- Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1594, character 2
- Unihan data for U+6CB1
- yedict.com (叶典)
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
沱 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 沱
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| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (它) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 佗 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl |
| 拕 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 它 | *l̥ʰaːl |
| 蛇 | *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal |
| 袉 | *l̥ʰaːlʔ, *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 鴕 | *l'aːl |
| 駝 | *l'aːl |
| 紽 | *l'aːl |
| 鮀 | *l'aːl |
| 陀 | *l'aːl |
| 沱 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 跎 | *l'aːl |
| 詑 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ, *hlel, *lal, *l̥ʰoːl |
| 酡 | *l'aːl |
| 迱 | *l'aːl |
| 舵 | *l'aːlʔ |
| 柁 | *l'aːlʔ |
| 鉈 | *ɦljaːl, *hljal |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˊ
- Wade-Giles: t'uo2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: two
- IPA (key): /tʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: to4
- Yale: tòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: to4
- IPA (key): /tʰɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 沱 | 沱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 徒河切 | 徒可切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dɑ/ | /dɑX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dɑ/ | /dɑX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dɑ/ | /dɑX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/da/ | /daX/ |
| Li Rong |
/dɑ/ | /dɑX/ |
| Wang Li |
/dɑ/ | /dɑX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱɑ/ | /dʱɑX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tuó | duò |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 沱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
tuó |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ da › |
| Old Chinese |
/*lˤaj/ |
| English | flow (v.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 沱 | 沱 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 12218 | 12229 |
| Phonetic component |
它 | 它 |
| Rime group |
歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
駝 | 爹 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l'aːl/ | /*l'aːlʔ/ |
Definitions
沱
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
沱 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)
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Vietnamese
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