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兔

兔

兔 U+5154, 兔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5154
← 兓
[U+5153] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兕 →
[U+5155]
See also: 兎

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

兔 (radical 10 儿+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓山戈 (NUI), four-corner 17413, composition ⿷免丶 (GTJV) or ⿷免丶 (K))

References

  • KangXi: page 125, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1368
  • Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 273, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5154

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 兔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 兔
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Oracle bone script

j22552

j22553

j22554

j22555

j22556
Large seal script

L36015

L36016

L36017

L20680

L20681

L20682

L20683

L20684
Small seal script

s07132
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
菟 *tʰaːs, *daː
兔 *tʰaːs
鵵 *tʰaːs
梚 *daː

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 兔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 湯故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɔH/
Li
Rong		 /tʰoH/
Wang
Li		 /tʰuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 兔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤa-s/
English rabbit, hare

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 兔
Reading # 1/1
No. 12509
Phonetic
component		 兔
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 菟
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰaːs/

Noun

兔

  1. rabbit, hare

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

兔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

兔 • ‎(to) (hangeul 토, revised to, McCune-Reischauer t'o)

  1. 토끼 (tokki) rabbit, hare
  2. 달 (dal) moon

Vietnamese

Han character

兔 (thỏ, kim)

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