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妥 U+59A5, 妥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59A5
← 妤
[U+59A4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 妦 →
[U+59A6]

Translingual

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Han character

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妥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 月女 (BV), four-corner 20404, composition ⿱爫女)

  1. satisfactory, appropriate

Derived characters

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Additional Derived Characters

References

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  • 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

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trad. 妥
simp. # 妥
alternative forms 𡛎
𢼻

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 妥
Shang Western Zhou Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (妥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妥 *n̥ʰoːlʔ
鵎 *n̥ʰoːlʔ
挼 *noːl, *snuːl
骽 *n̥ʰuːlʔ
脮 *n̥ʰuːlʔ, *nuːlʔ
餒 *nuːlʔ
浽 *nuːlʔ, *snul
娞 *nuːlʔ
鮾 *nuːlʔ
綏 *snul
荽 *snul
鋖 *snɯl
桵 *njul

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 爪 (“hand”) + 女 (“woman”) – to comfort, to placate. Original form of 綏 (OC *snul).

Compare 孚.

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • thó͘/thó - literary;
  • thò - vernacular (俗).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 妥
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 妥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他果切
Baxter thwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰwaX/
Li
Rong 		/tʰuɑX/
Wang
Li 		/tʰuɑX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tʰuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tuǒ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		to2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妥
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 妥
Reading # 1/1
No. 12585
Phonetic
component 		妥
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		妥
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ʰoːlʔ/
Notes 金文通蕤賓之蕤

Definitions

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妥

  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
    唔妥 [Cantonese]  ―  m4 to5 [Jyutping]  ―  to resent
  7. (Cantonese, intransitive, chiefly in the negative) to be without issue; to not have problems

Synonyms

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  • (appropriate):
  • (finished):

Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of “appropriate”):

Compounds

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References

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  • “妥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “妥”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 128.

Japanese

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Shinjitai 妥
Kyūjitai
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妥󠄁
妥+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
妥󠄃
妥+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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妥

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. gentle

Readings

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  • Go-on: た (ta)
  • Kan-on: た (ta)
  • Kan’yō-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
  • Kun: おだやか (odayaka, 妥やか)
  • Nanori: やす (yasu)、やすし (yasushi)

References

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  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

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Hanja

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妥 (eum 타 (ta))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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

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