豆

See also 荳

Translingual

Stroke order

Phonosemantic interpretation

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

豆 (radical 151 豆+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

• Index:Chinese radical/豆
• 頭

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

豆 (Yale dau2, dau6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

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

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

豆 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ず (zu)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: まめ (mame), たかつき (takatsuki)

Noun

豆 (hiragana まめ, romaji mame)

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

豆 (pinyin dòu (dou4), Wade-Giles tou⁴)

Compounds

• 豆腐

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Middle Chinese

Han character

豆 (dhòu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

豆 (đậu, dấu)