投

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 扌 + 殳

Han character

投 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌殳)

1. throw, cast, fling, pitch
2. jump
3. (literary) to go toward

References

• KangXi: page 421, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
• Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1842, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6295

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Cantonese

Hanzi

投 (Jyutping tau4, Yale tau4)

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Japanese

Kanji

投

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ず (zu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: なげる (nageru)

Counter

投 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. (baseball) pitches

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Korean

Hanja

投 (tu) (hangeul 투, revised tu, McCune-Reischauer t'u, Yale thwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

投 (Pinyin tóu (tou2), káng (kang2), Wade-Giles t'ou², k'ang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投 (đầu, nhầu)

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