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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
豆-order.gif

Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*t-/ lends semantic value Straight. Vowel /*-u-/ lends semantic value Circle or Mass. Pictogram (象形) of an elliptical food vessel. Present-day meanings are via association and extension. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Han character[edit]

(radical 151 +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108)

  1. bean, beans, pea, peas
  2. bean-shaped
  3. (obsolete) a kind of food container

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1191, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3565, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C46

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(Yale dau2, dau6)


Hakka[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(POJ thèu, Guangdong t'eu5; t'eu6 [Hailu], t'iu3 [Bao'an], t'eu3 [Dongguan], Hagfa Pinyim teu4)

References[edit]


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

(hiragana まめ, romaji mame)

  1. the pulses
  2. a bean
  3. a pea
  4. a soybean

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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


Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin dòu (dou4), Wade-Giles tou4)

Compounds[edit]


Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(dhòu)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(đậu, dấu)