滔

滔 U+6ED4, 滔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ED4 ← 滓 [U+6ED3] CJK Unified Ideographs 滕 → [U+6ED5]

Translingual

Han character

滔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹X (EBHX), four-corner 3217₇, composition ⿰氵舀)

References

• KangXi: page 643, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18035
• Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1702, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6ED4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		滔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
滔	*l̥ʰuː
韜	*l̥ʰuː
縚	*l̥ʰuː
謟	*l̥ʰuː
慆	*l̥ʰuː
幍	*l̥ʰuː
槄	*l̥ʰuː, *l̥ʰuːʔ
搯	*l̥ʰuː
瑫	*l̥ʰuː
稻	*l'uːʔ
蹈	*l'uːs
舀	*lowʔ, *lu, *lo

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹
• Min Nan (POJ): tho͘ / tho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tao
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou¹
    • Yale: tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho͘
    • Tâi-lô: thoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
    • Tâi-lô: tho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toy
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰɑu/

Rime
Character	滔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	土刀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰuː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁu/
English	rushing water
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	滔
Reading #	1/1
No.	14731
Phonetic component	舀
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰuː/

Definitions

滔

1. to flood; to inundate; to overflow
2. rushing water; torrent

Compounds

• 掃地滔天／扫地滔天
• 滔天 (tāotiān)
• 滔天之罪
• 滔天大禍／滔天大祸
• 滔天大罪 (tāotiāndàzuì)
• 滔德

• 滔滔 (tāotāo)
• 滔滔不斷／滔滔不断
• 滔滔不盡／滔滔不尽
• 滔滔不竭
• 滔滔不絕／滔滔不绝 (tāotāobùjué)
• 滔滔而至

• 滔滔雄辯／滔滔雄辩
• 滔蕩／滔荡
• 白浪滔滔
• 禍亂滔天／祸乱滔天
• 罪惡滔天／罪恶滔天
• 雄辯滔滔／雄辩滔滔 (xióngbiàntāotāo)

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Japanese

Kanji

滔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 㴞)

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Readings

• Go-on: とう (tō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kun: はびこる (habikoru, 滔る)

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Korean

Hanja

滔 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

滔: Hán Nôm readings: thao, thào

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