豆

See also: 荳

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #151, ⾖.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/豆
• 頭

References

• 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		豆
alternative forms		荳

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
侸	*toː
剅	*toː, *roː
郖	*toː, *doːs
鬪	*toːs
鋀	*tʰoː
頭	*doː
豆	*doːs
逗	*doːs, *dos
痘	*doːs
梪	*doːs
脰	*doːs
荳	*doːs
浢	*doːs
餖	*doːs
毭	*doːs
豎	*djoʔ
裋	*djoʔ
短	*toːnʔ

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 豆

1. bean
2. pea
3. bean-shaped
4. (historical) a kind of food container

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Japanese

Kanji

豆

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. bean, legume

Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu, Jōyō ^†)^{←づ (du, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: まめ (mame, 豆, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ど (do)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
豆
まめ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Noun

豆(まめ) • (mame) 

1. the pulses
2. a bean
   • 1988 July 30 [1984 July 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “世(せ)界(かい)名(めい)作(さく)童(どう)話(わ)第(だい)５(ご)巻(かん)　ジャックと豆(まめ)の木(き) (世(せ)界(かい)名(めい)作(さく)童(どう)話(わ)第(だい)５(ご)巻(かん)　ジャックと豆(まめ)の木(き)) [World’s Renowned Fairy Tales Book 5: Jack and the Beanstalk]”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 2), 10th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 120:

     ジャックは豆(まめ)の木をつたって、雲の上にのぼりました。

     Jakku wa mame no ki o tsutatte, kumo no ue ni noborimashita.

     Jack scrambled along the beanstalk, climbed up above the clouds.

3. a pea
4. a soybean

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 豆(まめ)甘(うまし) (mameumashi): Japanese grosbeak
• 豆(まめ)回(まわ)し (mamemawashi): Japanese grosbeak

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Korean

Hanja

豆 • (du) (hangeul 두, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 豆 (đậu, dấu)

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