駄

See also 馱, 驮, and 䭾

Translingual

shinjitai	駄
simplified	驮
traditional	馱

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 馬 + phonetic 太.

Han character

駄 (radical 187 馬+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸火大戈 (SFKI))

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1435, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44633
• Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4543, character 9
• Unihan data for U+99C4

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Japanese

Kanji

駄 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: た (ta), だ (da), たい (tai), だい (dai)
• Kun: のせる (noseru)

Compounds

• 下駄
• 駄目

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Korean

Hanja

駄 (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

駄 (pinyin pǒ (po3), tuó (tuo2), Wade-Giles p'o³, t'o²)