陶

Translingual

Han character

陶 (radical 170 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中心人山 (NLPOU), four-corner 7722₀)

1. pottery, ceramics
2. make pottery
3. cultivate, educate, mould
4. contented, happy
5. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1354, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41705
• Dae Jaweon: page 1858, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4139, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9676

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Cantonese

Hanzi

陶 (Yale tou4, yiu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

陶 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō), よう (yō)
• Kun: すえ (sue)

Compounds

• 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō): a potter
• 陶土 (とうど, tōdo): potter's clay

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Korean

Hanja

陶 (hangeul 도, 요, revised do, yo, McCune-Reischauer to, yo, Yale to, yo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

陶 (pinyin táo (tao2), Wade-Giles t'ao²)

Compounds

• 陶土 (táotǔ): potter's clay
• 陶工 (táogōng): a potter
• 陶瓷工 (táo cí gōng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

陶 (đào)