屠

屠	U+5C60, 屠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C60

屠	U+2F877, 屠 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F877

← 㞁
[U+2F876]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

屮 →
[U+2F878]

Translingual

Han character

屠 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+9, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 尸十大日 (SJKA), four-corner 7726₄, composition ⿸尸者)

Derived characters

潳, 䠧, 䣝, 鷵, 廜

Additional Derived Characters

𭄎, 𲖭, 𭏴, 𨼑, 𬄫, 𣦠, 𧬅, 𬤜, 𰅂, 𱊩, 𠪡, 𤺈

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 303, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7761
Dae Jaweon: page 600, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 976, character 15
Unihan data for U+5C60

Unihan data for U+2F877

Chinese

simp. and trad.		屠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觰	rtaːʔ, rtaː
諸	tjaː, tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	tjaːʔ, taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	djaː, taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	taːʔ, tʰaʔ
屠	daː, da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	ta, da
櫫	*ta
褚	taʔ, tʰaʔ
著	taʔ, tas, da, taɡ, *daɡ
箸	tas, das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	tja, djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daː, *da): semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tú (tu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tô͘ / tó͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tú
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tú
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu²
  - Yale: tú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twu
  - Palladius: ту (tu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tou⁴
  - Yale: tòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù
  - Hakka Romanization System: tu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doo
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tɔ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, rare in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó͘
  - Tâi-lô: tóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dor
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tɔ⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

tô͘ - literary;
tó͘ - vernacular variant, more common in Quanzhou.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: dou⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: du

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	同都切
Baxter	du
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duo/
Pan Wuyun	/duo/
Shao Rongfen	/do/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɔ/
Li Rong	/do/
Wang Li	/du/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤa/

(Zhengzhang): /*daː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tú
Middle Chinese	‹ du ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁa/
English	butcher (v.)
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	屠
Reading #	1/2
No.	16978
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	徒
Old Chinese	/*daː/

Definitions

屠

to slaughter livestock; to butcher livestock
to massacre; to slaughter
屠村 ― tú cūn ― to massacre a village
butcher
used in 屠蘇／屠苏
a surname
屠呦呦 ― Tú Yōuyōu ― Tu Youyou

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chú (chu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chú
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chú
  - Wade–Giles: chʻu²
  - Yale: chú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
  - Palladius: чу (ču)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ceoi⁴
  - Yale: chèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: drjo

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直魚切
Baxter	drjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡiɔ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyu⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*da/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
No.	16995
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	除
Old Chinese	/*da/

Definitions

屠

only used in 休屠 (Xiūchú)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01093
“屠”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

屠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ど (do)、ず (zu)
Kan-on: と (to)、ちょ (cho)
Kun: ほふる (hofuru, 屠る)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

屠 • (do, jeo) (hangeul 도, 저, revised do, jeo, McCune–Reischauer to, chŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屠: Hán Nôm readings: đồ

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