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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Alternative forms[edit]

Note that there are two Unicode z-variants, with code points U+90FD and U+FA26 (this last one, however, is a compatibility variant and should be avoided).

Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*t-/ lends semantic value Straight. Phono-semantic indicator (pile) + village/settlement → inhabitants (likened to a pile) of a metropolis or capital. Other present-day meanings are via association and extension. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (town, city) + phonetic  – a large city.

Han character[edit]

(radical 163 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十日弓中 (JANL), four-corner 47627, composition)

  1. metropolis, capital
  2. all, the whole
  3. elegant, refined

References[edit]


Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(Yale dou1)


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

(hiragana , romaji to)

  1. the prefecture of Tokyo

Compounds[edit]


Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hangeul , revised do, McCune-Reischauer to, Yale to)


Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin (du1), dōu (dou1), Wade-Giles tu1)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(đô, đo, đu, đua, đủ)