逃

See also: 迯

Translingual

Han character

逃 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜中一人 (YLMO), four-corner 3330₀, composition ⿺辶兆)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1256, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38845
• Dae Jaweon: page 1741, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3830, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9003

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Chinese

trad.		逃
simp. #		逃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 逃
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
挑	*l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ
洮	*l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew
桃	*l'aːw
逃	*l'aːw
咷	*l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws
鼗	*l'aːw
鞉	*l'aːw
駣	*l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ
𣂁	*sl̥ʰew
脁	*l̥ʰews
晁	*l'ew
兆	*l'ewʔ
旐	*l'ewʔ
狣	*l'ewʔ
鮡	*l'ewʔ, *l'eːw
垗	*l'ewʔ
姚	*lew
珧	*lew
銚	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws
恌	*lew, *l̥ʰeːw
烑	*lew
餆	*lew
筄	*lews
艞	*lews
佻	*l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw
祧	*l̥ʰeːw
朓	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ
庣	*l̥ʰeːw
趒	*l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
聎	*l̥ʰeːw
眺	*l̥ʰeːws
覜	*l̥ʰeːws
頫	*l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ
絩	*l̥ʰeːws
跳	*l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw
窕	*l'eːwʔ
誂	*l'eːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːw) : semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): táo (tao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thò
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tô / tô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: táo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: táo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao²
    • Yale: táu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taur
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tou⁴
    • Yale: tòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thò
    • Hakka Romanization System: toˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: to²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰo¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô
    • Tâi-lô: tô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dooi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /to¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /to²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɤ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
    • Tâi-lô: tôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: daw

Rime
Character	逃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒刀切
Baxter	daw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daw/
Li Rong	/dɑu/
Wang Li	/dɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	táo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	逃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	táo
Middle Chinese	‹ daw ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁaw/
English	flee
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	逃
Reading #	1/1
No.	16845
Phonetic component	兆
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	陶
Old Chinese	/*l'aːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 逃

1. to escape; to run away
2. to evade; to abscond; to dodge
3. 49th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "flight" (𝌶)

Synonyms

• (to escape):

(deprecated template usage)

• 亡
• 出逃 (chūtáo)
• 奔逃 (bēntáo) (formal)
• 脫逃／脱逃 (tuōtáo)
• 落跑 (chiefly Taiwan)
• 逃奔 (táobèn)
• 逃走 (táozǒu)
• 逃跑 (táopǎo)
• 逃逸 (táoyì) (literary)
• 逃離／逃离 (táolí)

 

• (to evade):

(deprecated template usage)

• 伏
• 匿藏 (nìcáng)
• 埋
• 埋藏 (máicáng) (figuratively)
• 暗囥 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 暗藏 (àncáng)
• 潛藏／潜藏 (qiáncáng)
• 竄／窜 (cuàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 竄匿／窜匿 (cuànnì)
• 藏蹤／藏踪 (cángzōng)
• 藏身 (cángshēn)
• 藏躲 (cángduǒ)
• 覕囥／𰴕囥 (Hokkien)
• 走覕／走𰴕 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 走閃／走闪 (Min Nan)
• 躲藏 (duǒcáng)
• 躲避 (duǒbì)
• 逃匿 (táonì)
• 逃避 (táobì)
• 迴避／回避 (huíbì)
• 避諱／避讳 (bìhuì) (colloquial)
• 閃覕／闪𰴕 (Min Nan)
• 隱秘／隐秘 (yǐnmì)
• 隱蔽／隐蔽 (yǐnbì)
• 隱藏／隐藏 (yǐncáng)
• 隱覕／隐𰴕 (ín-bih, ún-bih) (Min Nan)
• 隱避／隐避 (yǐnbì)

 

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

逃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: にげる (nigeru, 逃げる, Jōyō); のがす (nogasu, 逃す, Jōyō); のがれる (nogareru, 逃れる, Jōyō); にがす (nigasu, 逃がす, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 逃散
• 逃走
• 逃避
• 逃避行
• 逃避的
• 逃亡
• 逃亡者
• 逃亡生活

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Korean

Hanja

逃 • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 逃 (đào)

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