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Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月山十大日 (BUJKA), four-corner 64060)

References

  • KangXi: page 812, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23519
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2494, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7779

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
*tjaː, *tja
*tjaːʔ
*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
*tjaːʔ
*l̥ʰjaːʔ
*tʰjaːʔ
*djaː, *taː
*hljaː
*toːlʔ
*taː
*taː
*taːʔ
*taːʔ
*taːʔ
*taːʔ
*taːʔ
*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
*daː, *da
*daː
*daː
*daː
*ljaʔ
*ta
*ta
*ta
*ta, *da
*ta
*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
*tas, *das
*da
*da
*tja
*tja, *djas
*tja
*tjaʔ
*tjaʔ
*tjaʔ
*tjaʔ
*tjas
*djas
*djas
*djas
*hlja
*hjaʔ
*taɡ
*taɡ
*taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *taːʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-ta-s/t (to see, to look); cognate with Tibetan ལྟ་བ (lta ba, to look at, to see) (LaPolla, 1994). It has also been connected with Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (eye) (Unger, 1990).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/toX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɔX/
Li
Rong
/toX/
Wang
Li
/tuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤaʔ/
English see

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. 16972
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taːʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to see; to look at
  2. to witness; to observe

Compounds

  • 一睹
  • 不睹
  • 不睹事
  • 不睹是
  • 先睹為快先睹为快
  • 大睹是
  • 慘不忍睹惨不忍睹 (cǎnbùrěndǔ)
  • 拔睹兒拔睹儿
  • 撥雲睹日拨云睹日
  • 有目共睹 (yǒumùgòngdǔ)
  • 熟視無睹熟视无睹
  • 目不忍睹
  • 目大不睹
  • 目所未睹
  • 目睹 (mùdǔ)
  • 目睹耳聞目睹耳闻
  • 眾目共睹众目共睹
  • 睹微知著
  • 睹景傷情睹景伤情
  • 睹物傷情睹物伤情
  • 睹物思人
  • 睹物懷人睹物怀人
  • 睹物生情
  • 睹物興悲睹物兴悲
  • 睹物興情睹物兴情
  • 瞥睹
  • 耳聞目睹耳闻目睹
  • 視若無睹视若无睹
  • 親眼目睹亲眼目睹
  • 親睹亲睹
  • 逆睹
  • 重睹天日

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(do) (hangeul , revised do, McCune-Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đổ, đủ)

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