套

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𡘷

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 大 (“large”) + 長 (“long”)

Han character

套 (radical 37 大+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大尸一戈 (KSMI), four-corner 4073₁, composition ⿱大镸)

1. case, cover, wrapper, envelope

References

• KangXi: page 252, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5926
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 540, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5957

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Cantonese

Hanzi

套 (Yale tou3)

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Japanese

Kanji

套

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: かさねる (kasaneru), おおい (ooi)

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Korean

Hanja

套 (hangeul 투, 토, revised tu, to, McCune-Reischauer t'u, t'o)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Hanzi

套 (pinyin tào (tao4), Wade-Giles t'ao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

套 (sáo, thạo)