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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜一口廿 (YMRT), four-corner 31301, composition)

  1. tempt, allure, arouse, stir
  2. tease

References

  • KangXi: page 1257, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3838, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9017

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (11) (7)
Final () (24) (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖɨoH/ /dəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖioH/ /dəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡioH/ /dəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖuə̆H/ /dəwH/
Li
Rong
/ȡioH/ /duH/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭuH/ /dəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯uH/ /dʱə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhù dòu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2467 2477
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːs/ /*dos/

Definitions

  1. to amuse, to be funny
  2. to be ridiculous, to play around (usually in negative sentence)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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