濤

See also: 涛

Translingual

Han character

濤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水土弓戈 (EGNI), four-corner 3414₁, composition ⿰氵壽)

Derived characters

• 𤒵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 656, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18508
• Dae Jaweon: page 1066, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1765, character 16
• Unihan data for U+6FE4

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Chinese

trad.		濤
simp.		涛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 濤
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
禱	*tuːʔ, *tuːs
擣	*tuːʔ
檮	*tuːʔ, *duː, *du
壔	*tuːʔ
懤	*tuːʔ, *du, *dus
濤	*duː, *duː
燾	*duː, *duːs
翿	*duː, *duːs
幬	*duːs, *du
儔	*duːs, *du
譸	*tu
籌	*du
疇	*du
躊	*du
燽	*du
薵	*du
魗	*tʰjuʔ, *dju
醻	*dju
壽	*djuʔ, *djus
璹	*djuʔ, *djuɡ
鑄	*tjos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *duː, *duː) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 壽 (OC *djuʔ, *djus).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 濤

1. billows; large waves
2. sound of the sea

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Japanese

Kanji

濤

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

1. waves, billows

Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: なみ (nami, 濤)

Noun

濤(なみ) • (nami) 

1. Alternative form of 波 (“wave”)

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Korean

Hanja

濤 • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 濤 (đào)

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