瀆

See also: 渎 and 涜

Translingual

Traditional	瀆
Shinjitai (extended)	涜
Simplified	渎

Han character

瀆 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水土田金 (EGWC), four-corner 3418₆, composition ⿰氵賣)

1. disrespectful
2. ditch, sluice, gutter, drain

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 658, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18591
• Dae Jaweon: page 1068, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1776, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7006

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Chinese

trad.		瀆
simp.		渎

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): to̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: to̍k
    • Tâi-lô: to̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: duwk

Rime
Character	瀆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒谷切
Baxter	duwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/duk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/duk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwk̚/
Li Rong	/duk̚/
Wang Li	/duk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瀆
Reading #	1/1
No.	16046
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獨
Old Chinese	/*l'oːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瀆

1. disrespectful
2. ditch; sluice; gutter; drain

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòu (dou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòu
    • Wade–Giles: tou⁴
    • Yale: dòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dow
    • Palladius: доу (dou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dau⁶
    • Yale: dauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: deo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯²²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瀆

1. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 竇／窦 (dòu, “opening; hole”).

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Japanese

Kanji

瀆

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

1. ditch
2. sluice
3. gutter, drain
4. blaspheme, pollute

Readings

• Go-on: どく (doku)
• Kan-on: とく (toku)
• Kun: みぞ (mizo, 瀆); けがす (kegasu, 瀆す)

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Korean

Hanja

瀆 • (dok) (hangeul 독, revised dok, McCune–Reischauer tok, Yale tok)

1. ditch
2. pollute

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 瀆 (độc)

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