投

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌殳)

Derived characters

• 𠲴, 𫽌, 𫽟, 𡷠, 𥦆, 𭠚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 421, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
• Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6295

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		投

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
吺	*toː
祋	*toːd, *toːds
投	*doː
骰	*doː, *srɯɡ
酘	*doːs
坄	*doː, *leɡ
殳	*djo
杸	*djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóu (tou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thèu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiô / tô͘ / tâu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dao⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóu
    • Wade–Giles: tʻou²
    • Yale: tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tour
    • Palladius: тоу (tou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tau⁴
    • Yale: tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: teuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: teu²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiô
    • Tâi-lô: tiô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diooi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tio²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
    • Tâi-lô: tôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâu
    • Tâi-lô: tâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tau¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tau²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: duw

Rime
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	度侯切
Baxter	duw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəu/
Pan Wuyun	/dəu/
Shao Rongfen	/dəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəw/
Li Rong	/du/
Wang Li	/dəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤo/

  (Zhengzhang): /*doː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tóu
Middle Chinese	‹ duw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁo/
English	throw
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	投
Reading #	1/1
No.	11716
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	頭
Old Chinese	/*doː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 投

1. to throw; to fling; to pitch

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

投

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to throw
2. to discard
3. abandon

Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: なげる (nageru, 投げる, Jōyō)

Counter

投(とう) or 投(counter) • (tō or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|とう]]

1. (baseball) pitches

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Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 投 (đầu, nhầu)

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