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Translingual

Han character

(radical 113 +14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈火土弓戈 (IFGNI), four-corner 34241)

  1. pray
  2. entreat, beg, plead
  3. prayer

References

  • KangXi: page 847, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2410, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+79B1

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːʔ, *tuːs
*tuːʔ
*tuːʔ, *duː, *du
*tuːʔ
*tuːʔ, *du, *dus
*duː, *duː
*duː, *duːs
翿 *duː, *duːs
*duːs, *du
*duːs, *du
*tu
*du
*du
*du
*du
*du
*tʰjuʔ, *dju
*dju
*djuʔ, *djus
*djuʔ, *djuɡ
*tjos

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (5) (5)
Final () (89) (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tawX/ /tawH/
Li
Rong
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Wang
Li
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tɑuX/ /tɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dǎo dào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ tawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t]ˤuʔ/
English pray

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 11678 11683
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuːʔ/ /*tuːs/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. pray
  2. entreat
  3. beg
  4. plead
  5. prayer

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. to pray