塗

See also: 凃 and 涂

Translingual

Han character

塗 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水木土 (EDG), four-corner 3810₄, composition ⿱涂土)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 235, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5338
• Dae Jaweon: page 473, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 474, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5857

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Chinese

trad.		塗
simp.		涂*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斜	*lja, *laː
茶	*rlaː
荼	*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
梌	*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
搽	*rlaː
塗	*rlaː, *l'aː
佘	*ɦlja
賒	*hljaː
畬	*hljaː, *la
舍	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
捨	*hljaːʔ
騇	*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
涻	*hljaːs
稌	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
悇	*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
庩	*l̥ʰaː
捈	*l̥ʰaː, *l'aː
途	*l'aː
酴	*l'aː
駼	*l'aː
鵌	*l'aː, *la
涂	*l'aː, *l'a
嵞	*l'aː
峹	*l'aː
筡	*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
蒤	*l'aː
徐	*lja
俆	*lja
敘	*ljaʔ
漵	*ljaʔ
除	*l'a, *l'as
篨	*rla
滁	*rla
蒢	*rla
蜍	*ɦlja, *la
鵨	*hljaː
瑹	*hlja
余	*la
餘	*la
艅	*la
狳	*la
雓	*la
悆	*las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rlaː, *l'aː) : phonetic 涂 (OC *l'aː, *l'a) + semantic 土 (“earth; dirt”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 塗

1. mud
2. shoal
3. to daub; to smear; to apply; to paint
4. to cross out
5. to scribble; to scrawl over
6. (Southern Min) earth
7. (Southern Min) ground
8. a surname

Usage notes

This surname (塗／涂 (tú)) is different from the surname 涂 (tú) or the surname 凃 (tú)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

塗

(Jōyō kanji)

1. paint

Readings

• On (unclassified): と (to, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぬる (nuru, 塗る, Jōyō); どろ (doro, 塗); まみれる (mamireru, 塗れる)

Compounds

• 塗(と)装(そう) (tosō)
• 塗(と)料(りょう) (toryō)
• 糊(こ)塗(と) (koto)

Noun

塗(ぬり) • (nuri) 

1. Alternative spelling of 塗り

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 塗 (đồ)

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