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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一人 (YLMO), four-corner 33300, composition)

  1. escape, flee
  2. abscond, dodge

References

  • KangXi: page 1256, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38845
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1741, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3830, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9003

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
*l'aːw
*l'aːw
*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁 *sl̥ʰew
*l̥ʰews
*l'ew
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ
*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
*l'ewʔ
*lew
*lew
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
*lew
*lew
*lews
*lews
*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l̥ʰeːw
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
*l̥ʰeːws
*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
*l'eːwʔ
*l'eːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːw) : semantic  (walk) + phonetic  (OC *l'ewʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/daw/
Li
Rong
/dɑu/
Wang
Li
/dɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
táo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
táo
Middle
Chinese
‹ daw ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤaw/
English flee

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. 16845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːw/

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đào)

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