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竇

竇

See also: 窦

Translingual

Han character

竇 (radical 116 穴+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十金土田金 (JCGWC), four-corner 30806, composition ⿱穴賣)

References

  • KangXi: page 869, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1298, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2745, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7AC7

Chinese

trad. 竇
simp. 窦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 竇
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (儥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竇 *l'oːɡs
續 *ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿 *l'juːɡ
黷 *l'oːɡ
讟 *l'oːɡ
殰 *l'oːɡ
讀 *l'oːɡ
櫝 *l'oːɡ
牘 *l'oːɡ
儥 *l'oːɡ, *luɡ
贕 *l'oːɡ
皾 *l'oːɡ
瓄 *l'oːɡ
瀆 *l'oːɡ
豄 *l'oːɡ
韇 *l'oːɡ
嬻 *l'oːɡ
犢 *l'oːɡ
匵 *l'oːɡ
藚 *ljoɡ
襩 *ɦljoɡ
贖 *ɦljoɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 竇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 田候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dəuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwH/
Li
Rong		 /duH/
Wang
Li		 /dəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 竇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤok-s/
English hole; drain

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 竇
Reading # 1/1
No. 16033
Phonetic
component		 儥
Rime
group		 竇
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*l'oːɡs/

Definitions

竇

  1. A surname​.
  2. hole, burrow
  3. corrupt
  4. (Cantonese) nest; den
    老鼠竇 / 老鼠窦 [Cantonese]  ―  lou5 syu2dau3 [Jyutping]  ―  a rat's nest
    雀竇 / 雀窦 [Cantonese]  ―  zoek3dau3 [Jyutping]  ―  a bird's nest

See also

  • (nest): 巢 (cháo)

Japanese

Kanji

竇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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References

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