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淘

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淘 U+6DD8, 淘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DD8
← 淗
[U+6DD7]
CJK Unified Ideographs 淙 →
[U+6DD9]

Translingual

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Han character

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淘 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 水心人山 (EPOU), four-corner 37120, composition ⿰氵匋)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17642
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1656, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6DD8

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
淘

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'uː): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 匋 (OC *bl'uː).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • tao5 - literary;
  • do5 - vernacular.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淘
Reading # 1/1
No. 12366
Phonetic
component
匋
Rime
group
幽
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
陶
Old
Chinese
/*l'uː/

Definitions

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淘

  1. to wash in a container in order to remove impurities; to pan
    淘金  ―  táojīn  ―  to pan for gold
    淘米  ―  táomǐ  ―  to wash rice
    淘汰  ―  táotài  ―  to eliminate; to weed out
  2. (dialectal) to search for goods in an old market
    淘舊書/淘旧书  ―  táo jiùshū  ―  to search and buy old books
  3. to dredge; to clean out
    淘井  ―  táojǐng  ―  to dredge a well
  4. to expend; to consume; to use up; to spend
  5. (dialectal) naughty; mischievous
    淘氣/淘气  ―  táoqì  ―  naughty; mischievous
    這孩子淘得很!/这孩子淘得很! [dialectal Mandarin]  ―  Zhè háizi táo de hěn! [Pinyin]  ―  This kid is very naughty!
  6. (neologism) to buy on Taobao
  7. a surname

Synonyms

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Compounds

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References

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  • “淘”, 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–
  • 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), “淘”, 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 174.

Japanese

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Kanji

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淘

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to wash in a container in order to remove impurities; to pan; to clean out
    1. (specifically) to wash (rice)

Readings

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  • Go-on: どう (dō)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō)
  • Kun: ゆる (yuru, 淘る)、よなぐ (yonagu, 淘ぐ)、よなげる (yonageru, 淘げる)

Compounds

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See also

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Korean

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Hanja

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淘 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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淘: Hán Nôm readings: đào, rào

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