吐

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l̥ʰaːs): semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) + phonetic 土 ‎(OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ) – spew from your mouth.

Han character

吐 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 口土 (RG), four-corner 6401₀, composition ⿰口土)

1. vomit, spew out, cough up

References

• KangXi: page 176, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3300
• Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 576, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5410

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		吐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǔ, tù (tu³, tu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ, ㄊㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou³, tou²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phôn
• Min Nan (POJ): phùi / thò͘ / thó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: t'u³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuu
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tù
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: t'u⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuh
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou³, tou²
    • Yale: tou, tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou³, tou²
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³³/, /tʰou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: pon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pon¹
    • IPA: /pʰon²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phùi / thò͘ / thó͘
    • Tâi-lô: phuì / thòo / thóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phuix, tox, tor
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰui¹¹/, /tʰɔ¹¹/, /tʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰui²¹/, /tʰɔ²¹/, /tʰɔ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰuo^X/, /tʰuo^H/▼

Rime
Character	吐	吐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	他魯切	湯故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuoX/	/tʰuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuoX/	/tʰuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰoX/	/tʰoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɔX/	/tʰɔH/
Li Rong	/tʰoX/	/tʰoH/
Wang Li	/tʰuX/	/tʰuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰuoX/	/tʰuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǔ	tù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tʰˤaʔ/, /*tʰˤaʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːʔ/, /*l̥ʰaːs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	吐	吐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tǔ	tù
Middle Chinese	‹ thuX ›	‹ thuH ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰˤaʔ/	/*tʰˤaʔ-s/
English	eject from mouth, spit	vomit
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	吐	吐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12500	12502
Phonetic component	土	土
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	土	菟
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːʔ/	/*l̥ʰaːs/

Definitions

吐

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)
• (Min Nan) “Query for 吐”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

吐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. vomit, belch, spit (out)

Readings

• On: と (to)
• Kun: はく (吐く, haku)

Compounds

Compounds

哯吐 (つだみ) ‎(tsudami): (of an infant, etc) spitting out milk after taking a drink

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Korean

Hanja

吐 • ‎(to) (hangeul 토, revised to, McCune-Reischauer t'o, Yale tho)

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Noun

吐 (토, to)

1. An affixal letter used in kwukyel.

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Vietnamese

Han character

吐 (thổ, nhổ, giổ, giỗ)

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