對

See also: 対 and 对

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	対
simplified	对
traditional	對

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 丵 + 士 + 寸

Han character

對 (radical 41 寸+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿土木戈 (TGDI), four-corner 3410₀, composition ⿰⿱业⺷寸)

1. correct, right
2. facing, opposed

Descendants

• 対 对

References

• KangXi: page 296, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7457
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 511, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5C0D

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Chinese

		-
trad.		對
simp.		对

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duì (dui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deoi³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tùi
• Min Nan (POJ): tuì / uì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: duì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duey
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: deoi³
    • Yale: deui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doei³
    • IPA ^(key): /tɵy̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tùi
    • Guangdong: tui⁵
    • Hagfa Pinyim: dui4, doi4
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tuì / uì
    • Tâi-lô: tuì / uì
    • IPA (Taipei): /tui¹¹/, /ui¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tui²¹/, /ui²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (對, reconstructed)
Character (對), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 灰 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 都隊切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tuʌiH/	/tuɑ̆iH/	/tuᴀiH/	/tuoiH/	/twəjH/	/tuɒiH/	/tuɒiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (對, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
對								duì								‹ twojH ›								/*[t]ˤ[u]p-s/								respond
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
對					2580					對					內					2					對					/*tuːbs/

Compounds

• 對不起

References

• (Hakka) CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

對

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 対)

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Readings

• On: たい (tai), つい (tsui)
• Kun: こたえる (kotaeru), むかう (mukau), そろい (soroi), ならぶ (narabu), あいて (aite)

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Korean

Hanja

對 (dae) (hangeul 대, revised dae, McCune-Reischauer tae, Yale tay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

對 (đối, đỗi, dối, đôi, nhói, tối, tụi)

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