督

督 U+7763, 督 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7763 ← 睢 [U+7762] CJK Unified Ideographs 睤 → [U+7764]

Translingual

Han character

督 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜水月山 (YEBU), four-corner 2760₄, composition ⿱叔目)

Derived characters

• 𧝴

References

• KangXi: page 810, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23457
• Dae Jaweon: page 1225, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2495, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7763

Chinese

simp. and trad.		督

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
椒	*ʔsliw
茮	*ʔsliw
踧	*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
蔋	*l'ɯːwɢ
惄	*nɯːwɢ
戚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慼	*sʰlɯːwɢ
鏚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慽	*sʰlɯːwɢ
磩	*sʰlɯːwɢ
寂	*zlɯːwɢ
嘁	*ʔsluːb
墄	*sʰlɯːɡ
摵	*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
督	*ʔl'uːwɢ
錖	*ʔl'uːwɢ
裻	*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
傶	*ʔslɯːwɢ
蹙	*ʔslɯwɢ
槭	*ʔslɯwɢ
縬	*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
顣	*ʔslɯwɢ
敊	*l̥ʰɯwɢ
琡	*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
俶	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
埱	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
淑	*ɦljɯwɢ
婌	*ɦljɯwɢ
尗	*hljɯwɢ
叔	*hljɯwɢ
掓	*hljɯwɢ
菽	*hljɯwɢ
鮛	*hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔl'uːwɢ): phonetic 叔 (OC *hljɯwɢ) + semantic 目 (“eye”) – to look over, to oversee (with eyes).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): dū (du¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨ

  (Chengdu, SP): du¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tuk
• Min Dong (BUC): dók
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dog⁴

• Wu (Wiktionary): ⁴toq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dū
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: du
    • Wade–Giles: tu¹
    • Yale: dū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: du
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: du¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: du
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk¹
    • Yale: dūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: dug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: dug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /tuk̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /touʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tok
    • Tâi-lô: tok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dog
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /tɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tok̚²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ⁴toq
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /tuok̚/

Rime
Character	督
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	冬 (6)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	冬毒切
Baxter	towk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tuok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tawk̚/
Li Rong	/tok̚/
Wang Li	/tuok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	du
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːwɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	督
Reading #	1/1
No.	11738
Phonetic component	尗
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	篤
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːwɢ/

Definitions

督

1. ^⁜ to supervise

   督查  ―  dūchá  ―  to superintend

2. a surname

Compounds

• 催督 (cuīdū)
• 基督 (Jīdū)
• 家督 (jiādū)
• 拿督 (nádū)
• 提督 (tídū)
• 教督
• 督促 (dūcù)
• 督催
• 督察 (dūchá)
• 督工
• 督役
• 督率

• 督理
• 督策
• 都督 (dūdu)
• 官督商辦／官督商办
• 平原督郵／平原督邮
• 循名督實／循名督实
• 河道總督／河道总督
• 監督／监督 (jiāndū)
• 督學／督学 (dūxué)
• 督導／督导 (dūdǎo)
• 督師／督师 (dūshī)

• 督戰／督战 (dūzhàn)
• 督撫／督抚 (dūfǔ)
• 督緝／督缉
• 督課／督课
• 督責／督责 (dūzé)
• 督軍／督军 (dūjūn)
• 督辦／督办 (dūbàn)
• 督過／督过
• 督飭／督饬
• 總督／总督 (zǒngdū)
• 行政監督／行政监督

References

• “督”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

督

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. coach
2. command
3. urge
4. lead
5. supervise

Readings

• On (unclassified): とく (toku, Jōyō)
• Kun: みる (miru, 督る); うながす (unagasu, 督す); ひきいる (hikīru, 督いる)

Compounds

• 督促(とくそく) (tokusoku)
• 督励(とくれい) (tokurei)
• 監督(かんとく) (kantoku): director

Korean

Hanja

督 (eumhun 살필 독 (salpil dok))

1. Hanja form^? of 독 (“supervise, direct”).

Compounds

• 감독 (監督, gamdok, “director, supervisor, manager, superintendent”)
• 독촉 (督促, dokchok, “urge”)

Vietnamese

Han character

督: Hán Nôm readings: đốc

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