啕

Translingual

Han character

啕 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口心人山 (RPOU), four-corner 6702₀, composition ⿰口匋)

1. wail

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 196, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3823
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 644, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5555

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		啕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (匋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
掏	*l̥ʰuː, *l'uː
蜪	*l̥ʰuː, *l'uː
陶	*bl'uː, *luː
萄	*l'uː
啕	*l'uː
淘	*l'uː
騊	*l'uː
匋	*bl'uː
祹	*l'uː
綯	*l'uː

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): táo (tao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: táo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: táo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao²
    • Yale: táu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taur
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tou⁴
    • Yale: tòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: daw

Rime
Character	啕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒刀切
Baxter	daw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daw/
Li Rong	/dɑu/
Wang Li	/dɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	táo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'uː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	啕
Reading #	1/1
No.	12365
Phonetic component	匋
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	陶
Old Chinese	/*l'uː/
Notes	說文從言

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 啕

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Japanese

Kanji

啕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō), どう (dō)
• Kun: おしゃべり (oshaberi)

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Korean

Hanja

啕 • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to)

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