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蚪

蚪

Translingual

Han character

蚪 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜十 (LIYJ), four-corner 5410₀)

tadpole

References

KangXi: page 1079, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32903

Dae Jaweon: page 1547, character 28

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2840, character 13

Unihan data for U+86AA

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
斗	*toːʔ
抖	*toːʔ
蚪	*toːʔ
枓	toːʔ, tjoʔ
阧	*toːʔ
斢	*tʰoːʔ
鈄	*tʰoːʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): dǒu (dou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: dǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˇ
  - Wade-Giles: tou³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doou
  - IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: dau²
  - Yale: dáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dau²
  - IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /təu^X/▼

Rime
Character	蚪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	當口切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/təu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/təu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/təu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təw^X/
Li Rong	/tu^X/
Wang Li	/təu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/tə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dǒu

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*toːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚪
Reading #	1/1
No.	2453
Phonetic component	斗
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	斗
Old Chinese	/*toːʔ/
Notes	爾雅作科斗

Definitions

蚪

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Compounds

虼蚪兒／虼蚪儿

蝌蚪 (kēdǒu)

蝌蚪文

Japanese

Kanji

蚪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: つ (tsu)

Kan’on: とう (tō)

Kan’yōon: と (to)

Korean

Hanja

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

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