套

See also: 室

Translingual

Han character

套 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大尸一戈 (KSMI), four-corner 4073₁, composition ⿱大镸)

Derived characters

• 𠺆, 𣺮, 𨻝, 𫯾, 𪄤, 𥱫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 252, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5926
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 540, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5957

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		套
alternative forms		㚐 𡘷 ⿱大长 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 大 (“large”) + 長 (“long”) – long. It is later borrowed for the “cover” sense and has now lost its original meaning.

Etymology 1

Cognate with 韜 (OC *l̥ʰuː); probably cognate with 㧺 and 錔 (OC *tʰuːb).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 套

1. to cover with
2. case; cover; wrapper; envelope
3. to overlap
4. set; suit
5. knot
6. to harness
7. harness
8. trick; trap
9. Classifier for a set of objects (books, furniture, rooms, etc). ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
10. (colloquial) condom

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 避孕套 (“condom”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		避孕套, 安全套, 保險套, 陰莖套
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	避孕套兒, 套兒
	Taiwan	保險套, 衛生套, 套, 套套, 小雨傘 euphemistic, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic
	Harbin	保險套兒
	Malaysia	如意套
	Singapore	如意套, 安全套
Cantonese	Hong Kong	避孕套, 安全套, 套, condom, dom, dom dom, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic, 如意袋 euphemistic
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	保險套, 保險落
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	保險落
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	保險套
Southern Min	Taipei	sak-khuh GT, 保險套 GT
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	避孕袋, 避孕套
Wu	Shanghai	套子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎo (tao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao³
    • Yale: tǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tao
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: thawX

Rime
Character	套
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他浩切
Baxter	thawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰawX/
Li Rong	/tʰɑuX/
Wang Li	/tʰɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰaːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	套
Reading #	1/2
No.	12375
Phonetic component	套
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	討
Old Chinese	/*tʰaːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 套

1. ^† long

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

套

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: かさねる (kasaneru, 套ねる); おおい (ōi, 套い)

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Korean

Hanja

套 • (tu, to) (hangeul 투, 토)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 套 (sáo, thạo)

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