竇

竇 U+7AC7, 竇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AC7 ← 竆 [U+7AC6] CJK Unified Ideographs 竈 → [U+7AC8]

See also: 窦

Translingual

Han character

竇 (radical 116 穴+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十金土田金 (JCGWC), four-corner 3080₆, composition ⿱穴賣)

References

• KangXi: page 869, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25695
• Dae Jaweon: page 1298, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2745, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7AC7

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Chinese

trad.		竇
simp.		窦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 竇
Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòu (dou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau³, dau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dow
    • IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dau³, dau⁶
    • Yale: dau, dauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau³, dau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: deo³, deo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯³³/, /tɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /dəu^H/▼

Rime
Character	竇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	田候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/dəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/dəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwH/
Li Rong	/duH/
Wang Li	/dəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lˤok-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oːɡs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	竇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dòu
Middle Chinese	‹ duwH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤok-s/
English	hole; drain
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	竇
Reading #	1/1
No.	16033
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	竇
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*l'oːɡs/

Definitions

竇

1. A surname​.
2. hole, burrow
3. corrupt
4. (Cantonese) nest; den

   老鼠竇 / 老鼠窦 [Cantonese]  ―  lou⁵ syu² dau³ [Jyutping]  ―  a rat's nest

   雀竇 / 雀窦 [Cantonese]  ―  zoek³ dau³ [Jyutping]  ―  a bird's nest

See also

• (nest): 巢 (cháo)

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Japanese

Kanji

竇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō), とく (toku)
• Kun: あな (ana)

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Korean

Hanja

竇 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: đậu

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References

• Nom Foundation