討

See also: 讨

Translingual

Han character

討 (radical 149 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口木戈 (YRDI), four-corner 0460₀)

1. to discuss
2. ask for, beg
3. demand
4. dun
5. marry

References

• KangXi: page 1147, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35231
• Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3940, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8A0E

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Chinese

trad.		討
simp.		讨

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎo (tao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thó
• Min Nan (POJ): thó

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tao
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou²
    • Yale: tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou²
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thó
    • Hakka Romanization System: to`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: to³
    • IPA: /tʰo³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó
    • Tâi-lô: thó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toir
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɤ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	討
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他浩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰawX/
Li Rong	/tʰɑuX/
Wang Li	/tʰɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[t]ʰˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰuːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	討
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ thawX ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]ʰˤuʔ/
English	examine; denounce
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	討
Reading #	1/1
No.	12374
Phonetic component	討
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	討
Old Chinese	/*tʰuːʔ/
Notes	疑肘聲

Definitions

討

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Japanese

Kanji

討

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: うつ (utsu), たずねる (tazuneru)

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Korean

Hanja

討 • ‎(to) (hangeul 토, revised to, McCune-Reischauer t'o, Yale tho)

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Compounds

• 討論 (토론, toron)

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Vietnamese

Han character

討 (thảo)

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