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逗

逗

Translingual

Han character

逗 (radical 162 辵+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜一口廿 (YMRT), four-corner 31301, composition ⿺辶豆)

  1. tempt, allure, arouse, stir
  2. tease

References

  • KangXi: page 1257, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3838, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9017

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 逗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 逗 逗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 持遇切 田候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨoH/ /dəuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖioH/ /dəuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡioH/ /dəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖuə̆H/ /dəwH/
Li
Rong		 /ȡioH/ /duH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭuH/ /dəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯uH/ /dʱə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhù dòu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 逗 逗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2467 2477
Phonetic
component		 豆 豆
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 住
Old
Chinese		 /*doːs/ /*dos/

Definitions

逗

  1. to amuse, to be funny
  2. to be ridiculous, to play around (usually in negative sentence)

Japanese

Kanji

逗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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