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Translingual

Han character

(radical 115 +10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月竹X (HDBHX), four-corner 22977, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 857, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25216
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1283, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2624, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+7A3B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː, *l̥ʰuːʔ
*l̥ʰuː
*l̥ʰuː
*l'uːʔ
*l'uːs
*lowʔ, *lu, *lo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'uːʔ) : semantic  (grain, cereal, rice) + phonetic  (OC *lowʔ, *lu, *lo).

Etymology

Area word (rice culture originated in the south). Often compared with Proto-Hmong-Mien *mbləu (rice plant/paddy), whence White Hmong nplej.

The relationship with similar-looking Mon-Khmer words is ambiguous; compare Vietnamese lúa (paddy rice).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dawX/
Li
Rong
/dɑuX/
Wang
Li
/dɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dào
Middle
Chinese
‹ dawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[l]ˤuʔ/
English rice, paddy

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. 14741
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'uːʔ/

Definitions

  1. paddy, rice (Oryza sativa)
  2. A surname.

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Min Zhong)
  • (Min Dong, Min Nan)
  • (Min Nan) 稻仔

Compounds

  • 佈稻仔布稻仔
  • 割稻仔
  • 割稻仔尾
  • 大稻埕
  • 斬稻仔尾斩稻仔尾
  • 稻仔
  • 稻埕
  • 稻梁菽麥黍粟稻梁菽麦黍粟
  • 稻殼稻壳
  • 稻田 (dàotián)
  • 稻瘟病
  • 稻秧
  • 稻穀稻谷
  • 稻穗

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đạo)

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