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塗

塗

See also: 凃 and 涂

Translingual

Han character

塗 (radical 32 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水木土 (EDG), four-corner 38104, composition ⿱涂土)

  1. smear, daub, apply, spread
  2. paint

References

  • KangXi: page 235, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5338
  • Dae Jaweon: page 473, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 474, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5857

Chinese

trad. 塗
simp. 涂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斜 *lja, *laː
茶 *rlaː
荼 *rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
梌 *rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
搽 *rlaː
塗 *rlaː, *l'aː
佘 *ɦlja
賒 *hljaː
畬 *hljaː, *la
舍 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
捨 *hljaːʔ
騇 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
涻 *hljaːs
稌 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
悇 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
庩 *l̥ʰaː
捈 *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
途 *l'aː
酴 *l'aː
駼 *l'aː
鵌 *l'aː, *la
涂 *l'aː, *l'a
嵞 *l'aː
峹 *l'aː
筡 *l'aː, *l̥ʰa
蒤 *l'aː
徐 *lja
俆 *lja
叙 *ljaʔ
漵 *ljaʔ
除 *l'a, *l'as
篨 *rla
滁 *rla
蒢 *rla
蜍 *ɦlja, *la
鵨 *hljaː
瑹 *hlja
余 *la
餘 *la
艅 *la
狳 *la
雓 *la
悆 *las

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 塗 塗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 模 (23) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 同都切 宅加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duo/ /ɖˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duo/ /ɖᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /do/ /ȡa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dɔ/ /ɖaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /do/ /ȡa/
Wang
Li		 /du/ /ȡa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuo/ /ȡʱa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tú chá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 塗 塗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tú tú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ du › ‹ du ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤa/ /*lˤa/
English to plaster 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 塗 塗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15751 15774
Phonetic
component		 余 余
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 𡨀 徒
Old
Chinese		 /*rlaː/ /*l'aː/
Notes 今作搽

Definitions

塗

  1. to daub, to smear, to apply

Japanese

Kanji

塗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. paint

Readings

Compounds

Noun

塗 ‎(hiragana ぬり, romaji nuri)

  1. Alternative spelling of 塗り

Korean

Hanja

塗 • ‎(do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune-Reischauer to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

塗 (đồ)

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