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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – two pieces of meat (); the ⺼ components have been simplified to .

The conventional explanation is that this represented the concept of "many" through visual repetition. However, the earliest oracle bones use 多 for both "many" and another word meaning "to separate," thus suggesting that 多 depicts a piece of meat cut in two. The word "to separate" was later written as .

[edit] Han character

(radical 36 +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈弓戈 (NINI), four-corner 27207, composition)

  1. much, many
  2. more than, over

[edit] Descendants

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 246, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 489, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 862, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+591A

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale do1)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised da, McCune-Reischauer ta)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin duō (duo1), Wade-Giles to1)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*dɑ)


[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

(POJ to (to1))


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(đa)

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