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拖

拖

See also: 拕

Translingual

Han character

拖 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手人心木 (QOPD), four-corner 58012, composition ⿰扌㐌)

References

  • KangXi: page 426, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11961
  • Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1853, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+62D6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
他 *l̥ʰaːl
拖 *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞 *l'aːl
池 *l'aːl, *l'al
灺 *ljalʔ
鍦 *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵 *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也 *laːlʔ
忚 *hleːl
髢 *l'eːls
杝 *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔 *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳 *l'al
阤 *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施 *hljal, *hljals
絁 *hljal
葹 *hljal
弛 *hljalʔ
箷 *lal
衪 *lel, *lalʔ
暆 *lel
迆 *lal, *lalʔ
酏 *lal, *lalʔ
匜 *lal, *lalʔ
迤 *lalʔ
扡 *lalʔ
崺 *lalʔ
貤 *lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地 *l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls) : semantic 手 + phonetic 㐌.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 拖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 吐邏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰaH/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑH/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tuò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拖
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tuō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tha ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤaj/
English draw, pull

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 拖 拖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14766 14767
Phonetic
component		 也 也
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 佗 拖
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰaːl/ /*l̥ʰaːls/
Notes 俗拕字

Definitions

拖

  1. to drag; to tow; to haul
    拖車 / 拖车  ―  tuōchē  ―  tow truck
  2. to hold hands
    手拖手  ―  shǒutuōshǒu  ―  hand holding hand
  3. to delay; to prolong

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

拖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

拖 • ‎(ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拖 (đà, đớ, đợ, đỡ, tha)

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