埵

埵 U+57F5, 埵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57F5 ← 埴 [U+57F4] CJK Unified Ideographs 埶 → [U+57F6]

Translingual

Han character

埵 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 土竹十一 (GHJM), four-corner 4211₄, composition ⿰土垂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 231, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5190
• Dae Jaweon: page 467, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 454, character 2
• Unihan data for U+57F5

Chinese

trad.		埵
simp. #		埵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 埵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
埵	*toːlʔ
綞	*toːlʔ
涶	*tʰoːl, *tʰoːls
唾	*tʰoːls
厜	*stol
腄	*tol, *dols, *ɢʷɯ
箠	*tol, *tjolʔ
娷	*tols
諈	*tols
錘	*dol, *dols, *du
甀	*dol, *dols
硾	*dols
捶	*tjolʔ
垂	*djol
陲	*djol
倕	*djol
菙	*djolʔ
睡	*djols

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duǒ (duo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): do²
• Eastern Min (BUC): tuō
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dor³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duǒ
    • Wade–Giles: to³
    • Yale: dwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoo
    • Palladius: до (do)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: do²
    • Yale: dó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: do²
    • Guangdong Romanization: do²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔː³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: tuō
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰuo³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dor³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dô̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɒ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dor³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɒ³³²/

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• Middle Chinese: twaX

Rime
Character	埵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	丁果切
Baxter	twaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/tuɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twaX/
Li Rong	/tuɑX/
Wang Li	/tuɑX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tuɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	do2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	埵
Reading #	1/1
No.	1658
Phonetic component	垂
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	埵
Old Chinese	/*toːlʔ/

Definitions

埵

1. hardened earth
2. embankment
3. a tool used in smelting
4. the appearance of hanging down

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00558
• “埵”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “埵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “埵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 58.

Japanese

Kanji

埵

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hardened dirt or clay
2. cluster

Readings

• Go-on: た (ta)
• Kan-on: た (ta)

Compounds

• 薩埵(さった) (satta, “sattva, being”)
• 耳埵(みみたぶ) (mimitabu, “earlobe”)

Vietnamese

Han character

埵: Hán Nôm readings: đỏa/đoả

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