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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜人一木 (YOMD), four-corner 38309)

  1. way, road, path, journey
  2. course

References

  • KangXi: page 1257, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38882
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3843, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9014

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lja, *laː
*rlaː
*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'
*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'
*rlaː
*rlaː, *l'
*ɦlja
*hljaː
*hljaː, *la
*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
*hljaːʔ
*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
*hljaːs
*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
*l̥ʰaː
*l̥ʰaː, *l'
*l'
*l'
*l'
*l'aː, *la
*l'aː, *l'a
*l'
*l'
*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
*l'
*lja
*lja
*ljaʔ
*ljaʔ
*l'a, *l'as
*rla
*rla
*rla
*ɦlja, *la
*hljaː
*hlja
*la
*la
*la
*la
*la
*las

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duo/
Pan
Wuyun
/duo/
Shao
Rongfen
/do/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɔ/
Li
Rong
/do/
Wang
Li
/du/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ du ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤa/
English road

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. 15769
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aː/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đồ)

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