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Stroke order

Han character

(radical 151 豆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108, composition)

  1. Kangxi radical #151, (bean).

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/豆

References

  • KangXi: page 1191, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3565, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C46

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toː
*toː, *roː
*toː, *doːs
*toːs
*tʰoː
*doː
*doːs
*doːs, *dos
*doːs
*doːs
*doːs
*doːs
*doːs
*doːs
*doːs
*djoʔ
*djoʔ
*toːnʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a cup. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese (shū).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tou⁵¹/
Harbin /tou⁵³/
Tianjin /tou⁵³/
Jinan /tou²¹/
Qingdao /tou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tou³¹²/
Xi'an /tou⁴⁴/
Xining /tɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /təu¹³/
Lanzhou /tou¹³/
Ürümqi /tɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /təu³⁵/
Chengdu /təu¹³/
Guiyang /təu²¹³/
Kunming /təu²¹²/
Nanjing /təɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /tɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /təu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /təu³⁵/
Hohhot /təu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /dɤ²³/
Suzhou /dɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /dei¹³/
Wenzhou /dɤu²²/
Hui Shexian /tʰiu²²/
Tunxi /tʰiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /təu⁵⁵/
/təu¹¹/
Xiangtan /dəɯ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /tʰɛu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰeu⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰeu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tɐu²²/
Nanning /tɐu²²/
Hong Kong /tɐu²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔ²²/
/tau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /te⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tau³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwH/
Li
Rong
/duH/
Wang
Li
/dəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2466
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːs/

Definitions

  1. bean
  2. pea
  3. bean-shaped
  4. a kind of food container

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana まめ, romaji mame)

  1. the pulses
  2. a bean
  3. a pea
  4. a soybean

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(du) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đậu, dấu)

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