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U+8C46, 豆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C46

[U+8C45]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C47]
U+2F96, ⾖
KANGXI RADICAL BEAN

[U+2F95]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F97]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 151, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108, composition 𠮛)

  1. Kangxi radical #151, .

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1191, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3565, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C46

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms “bean”
Wikipedia has articles on:

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese (shū).

Etymology[edit]

Derived from (OC *doː), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *du (head) (STEDT).

"Soybean > bean" is possibly the same word as "round vessel" (Unger, 1984)

Pronunciation[edit]


Note: dòur - bean-related senses.
Note:
  • dau6 - used in compounds;
  • dau6-2 - used as a standalone noun.
  • Gan
  • Hakka
  • Jin
  • Min Bei
  • Min Dong
  • Min Nan
  • Note:
    • tāu - vernacular;
    • tiō/tō͘ - literary.
    Note:
    • dao7 - “bean”;
    • dou6 - “food container”.
  • Wu
  • Xiang

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    Mandarin Beijing /tou⁵¹/
    Harbin /tou⁵³/
    Tianjin /tou⁵³/
    Jinan /tou²¹/
    Qingdao /tou⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /tou³¹²/
    Xi'an /tou⁴⁴/
    Xining /tɯ²¹³/
    Yinchuan /təu¹³/
    Lanzhou /tou¹³/
    Ürümqi /tɤu²¹³/
    Wuhan /təu³⁵/
    Chengdu /təu¹³/
    Guiyang /təu²¹³/
    Kunming /təu²¹²/
    Nanjing /təɯ⁴⁴/
    Hefei /tɯ⁵³/
    Jin Taiyuan /təu⁴⁵/
    Pingyao /təu³⁵/
    Hohhot /təu⁵⁵/
    Wu Shanghai /dɤ²³/
    Suzhou /dɤ³¹/
    Hangzhou /dei¹³/
    Wenzhou /dɤu²²/
    Hui Shexian /tʰiu²²/
    Tunxi /tʰiu¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /təu⁵⁵/
    /təu¹¹/
    Xiangtan /dəɯ²¹/
    Gan Nanchang /tʰɛu²¹/
    Hakka Meixian /tʰeu⁵³/
    Taoyuan /tʰeu⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /tɐu²²/
    Nanning /tɐu²²/
    Hong Kong /tɐu²²/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔ²²/
    /tau²²/
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɑu²⁴²/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /te⁴⁴/
    Shantou (Min Nan) /tau³¹/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdau²³/

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (7)
    Final () (137)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () I
    Fanqie
    Baxter duwH
    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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    dau6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    dòu dòu
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ duwH › ‹ duwH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*[N.t]ˁo-s/ /*[d]ˁok-s/
    English bean vessel with a neck

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 2466
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*doːs/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea
      绿  ―  dòu  ―  mung bean
        ―  cándòu  ―  fava bean
        ―  wāndòu  ―  pea
    2. bean-shaped object
      咖啡  ―  kāfēidòu  ―  coffee bean
    3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice

    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia ja

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. bean, legume

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    まめ
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mame2/mame/

    From Old Japanese, in turn from Proto-Japonic *mamay.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (まめ) (mame

    1. the pulses
    2. a bean
    3. a pea
    4. a soybean

    Idioms[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ^ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    3. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese (MC duwH).

    Historical readings

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    (eumhun (kong du))

    1. Hanja form? of (bean).

    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Nôm readings: đậu[1], dấu[2]

    1. chữ Hán form of đậu (bean).

    Derived terms[edit]

    References[edit]

    Zhuang[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    1. Sawndip form of daeuh (seaweed, algae)

    Adjective[edit]

    1. Sawndip form of daeuh (green (as seaweed or algae))