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U+59A5, 妥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59A5

[U+59A4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+59A6]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月女 (BV), four-corner 20404, composition )

  1. satisfactory, appropriate

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+59A5

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 𡛎
𢼻

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意): (hand) + (woman) – to comfort, to placate. Original form of (OC *snul).

Compare .

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • thó͘/thó - literary;
  • thò - vernacular (俗).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tʰuo²¹⁴/
Harbin /tʰuo²¹³/
Tianjin /tʰuo¹³/
Jinan /tʰuə⁵⁵/
Qingdao /tʰuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /tʰuo⁵³/
Xi'an /tʰuo⁵³/
Xining /tʰu⁵³/
Yinchuan /tʰuə⁵³/
Lanzhou /tʰuə⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /tʰuɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /tʰuo⁴²/
Chengdu /tʰo⁵³/
Guiyang /tʰo⁴²/
Kunming /tʰo⁵³/
Nanjing /tʰo²¹²/
Hefei /tʰʊ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰuɤ⁵³/
Pingyao /tʰuə⁵³/
Hohhot /tʰuɤ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /tʰu³⁵/
Suzhou /tʰəu⁵¹/
Hangzhou /tʰo⁵³/
Wenzhou /tʰɤu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /tʰo³⁵/
Tunxi /tʰo³¹/
Xiang Changsha /tʰo⁴¹/
Xiangtan /tʰo⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /tʰo²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /tʰo³¹/
Taoyuan /tʰo¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰɔ²³/
Nanning /tʰɔ³⁵/
/tʰɔ²⁴/
Hong Kong /tʰɔ¹³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /to⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tʰo³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰɔ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰo⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ho³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter thwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰwaX/
Li
Rong
/tʰuɑX/
Wang
Li
/tʰuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tuǒ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
to2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tuǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ thwaX ›
Old
Chinese
/*n̥ˁojʔ/
English at ease

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12585
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*n̥ʰoːlʔ/
Notes

Definitions[edit]

  1. appropriate; suitable; proper
  2. finished; settled; ready
  3. (archaic) to sit still; to sit peacefully
  4. (literary) secure; stable; smooth
  5. (literary) to drop; to fall; to hang down
  6. (Cantonese, transitive, chiefly in the negative) to welcome; to like
    [Cantonese]  ―  m4 to5 [Jyutping]  ―  to resent
  7. a surname: Tuo

Synonyms[edit]

  • (appropriate):
  • (finished):

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

妥󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
妥󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. gentle

Readings[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 621 (paper), page 360 (digital)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eum (ta))

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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