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豆
豆
See also: 荳
Translingual
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Han character
豆 (radical 151 豆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108, composition ⿳一口䒑)
- Kangxi radical #151, ⾖ (“bean”).
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/豆
- 頭
References
- KangXi: page 1191, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
- Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3565, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8C46
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
豆 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 豆
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (豆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 侸 | *toː |
| 剅 | *toː, *roː |
| 郖 | *toː, *doːs |
| 鬪 | *toːs |
| 鋀 | *tʰoː |
| 頭 | *doː |
| 豆 | *doːs |
| 逗 | *doːs, *dos |
| 痘 | *doːs |
| 梪 | *doːs |
| 脰 | *doːs |
| 荳 | *doːs |
| 浢 | *doːs |
| 餖 | *doːs |
| 毭 | *doːs |
| 豎 | *djoʔ |
| 裋 | *djoʔ |
| 短 | *toːnʔ |
Pictogram (象形) – a cup. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese 菽 (shū).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): dau6, dau6-2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thèu
- Min Dong (BUC): dâu
- Min Nan (POJ): tāu
- Wu (Wiktionary): deu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: tou4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dow
- IPA (key): /toʊ̯⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dau6, dau6-2
- Yale: dauh, dáu
- Cantonese Pinyin: dau6, dau6-2
- IPA (key): /tɐu̯²²/, /tɐu̯²²⁻³⁵/
- Note: dau6 - used in compounds; dau6-2 - used as a standalone noun.
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu
- Hakka Romanization System: teuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: teu2
- IPA: /tʰe̯u¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dâu
- IPA (key): /tɑu²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāu
- Tâi-lô: tāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: dau
- IPA (Xiamen): /taʊ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /taʊ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /taʊ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /taʊ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /taʊ³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: deu (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̻ɜ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 豆 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /tou⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /tou⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /tou⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /tou²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /tou⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /tou³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /tou⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /tɯ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /təu¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /tou¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /tɤu²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /təu³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /təu¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /təu²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /təu²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /təɯ⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /tɯ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /təu⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /təu³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /təu⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /dɤ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /dɤ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /dei¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /dɤu²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /tʰiu²²/ |
| Tunxi | /tʰiu¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha |
/təu⁵⁵/ /təu¹¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /dəɯ²¹/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tʰɛu²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tʰeu⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʰeu⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tɐu²²/ |
| Nanning | /tɐu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /tɐu²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/tɔ²²/ /tau²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /tɑu²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /te⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tau³¹/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔdau²³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 豆 |
| 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 |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 豆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2466 |
| Phonetic component |
豆 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
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| Old Chinese |
/*doːs/ |
Definitions
豆
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
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Korean
Hanja
豆 • (du) (hangeul 두, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)
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