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滔

滔

Translingual

Han character

滔 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹X (EBHX), four-corner 32177)

  1. overflow
  2. rushing water, a torrent

References

  • KangXi: page 643, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18035
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1702, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6ED4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 滔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (舀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
滔 *l̥ʰuː
韜 *l̥ʰuː
縚 *l̥ʰuː
謟 *l̥ʰuː
慆 *l̥ʰuː
幍 *l̥ʰuː
槄 *l̥ʰuː, *l̥ʰuːʔ
搯 *l̥ʰuː
瑫 *l̥ʰuː
稻 *l'uːʔ
蹈 *l'uːs
舀 *lowʔ, *lu, *lo

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 滔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土刀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰaw/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑu/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 滔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thaw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤu/
English rushing water

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 滔
Reading # 1/1
No. 14731
Phonetic
component		 舀
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 饕
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰuː/

Definitions

滔

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Compounds

  • 掃地滔天／扫地滔天
  • 滔天
  • 滔天之罪
  • 滔天大禍／滔天大祸
  • 滔天大罪
  • 滔德
  • 滔滔雄辯／滔滔雄辩
  • 滔蕩／滔荡
  • 白浪滔滔
  • 禍亂滔天／祸乱滔天
  • 罪惡滔天／罪恶滔天
  • 雄辯滔滔／雄辩滔滔

Japanese

Kanji

滔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

滔 • ‎(do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune-Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滔 (thao, thào)

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