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答

答

See also: 荅

Translingual

Han character

答 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人一口 (HOMR), four-corner 88601, composition ⿱⺮合)

  1. answer, reply
  2. return
  3. assent to

References

  • KangXi: page 883, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26006
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2968, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7B54

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 答

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 答
Mandarin Beijing /ta³⁵/
Harbin /ta²⁴/
/ta⁴⁴/ ～理
Tianjin /tɑ²¹/ 回～
/tɑ⁴⁵/ ～對
Jinan /ta²¹³/
Qingdao /ta⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ta²⁴/
Xi'an /ta²¹/
Xining /ta⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ta¹³/
Lanzhou /ta¹³/
Ürümqi /ta²¹³/
Wuhan /ta²¹³/
Chengdu /ta³¹/
Guiyang /ta²¹/
Kunming /ta̠³¹/
Nanjing /tɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /tɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /taʔ²/
Pingyao /tʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /taʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /taʔ⁵/
Suzhou /taʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /tɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /tø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /taʔ²¹/
Tunxi /tɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ta²⁴/
Xiangtan /tɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /taʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tap̚¹/
Taoyuan /tɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tap̚³/
Nanning /tap̚³³/
Hong Kong /tap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tap̚³²/
/taʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ta²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tap̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔda⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 答
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都合切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /təp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /təp̚/
Li
Rong		 /tᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /tɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 da
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 答
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ top ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]ˤ[u]p/
English answer

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 答
Reading # 1/1
No. 4944
Phonetic
component		 合
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 答
Old
Chinese		 /*tkuːb/

Definitions

答

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

答

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

答 ‎(hiragana こたえ, romaji kotae)

  1. Alternative spelling of 答え

Korean

Hanja

答 • ‎(dap) (hangeul 답, revised dap, McCune-Reischauer tap, Yale tap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

答 (đáp, đớp, hóp)

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