妥

妥 U+59A5, 妥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59A5 ← 妤 [U+59A4] CJK Unified Ideographs 妦 → [U+59A6]

Translingual

Han character

妥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月女 (BV), four-corner 2040₄, composition ⿱爫女)

1. satisfactory, appropriate

Derived characters

• 俀 哸 娞 㞂 㟎 𢚶 挼 浽 䧌 桵 㱣 脮 䅑 綏(绥) 𨁡 鋖 鞖 餒(馁) 骽 鮾 𧞥
• 㼏 鵎 荽

References

• KangXi: page 257, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6107
• Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 2
• Unihan data for U+59A5

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Chinese

trad.		妥
simp. #		妥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 妥
Shang	Western Zhou	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
妥	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
鵎	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
挼	*noːl, *snuːl
骽	*n̥ʰuːlʔ
脮	*n̥ʰuːlʔ, *nuːlʔ
餒	*nuːlʔ
浽	*nuːlʔ, *snul
娞	*nuːlʔ
鮾	*nuːlʔ
綏	*snul
荽	*snul
鋖	*snɯl
桵	*njul

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuǒ (tuo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁵, to²
• Min Bei (KCR): tǒ̤
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): thó͘ / thó / thò

  (Teochew, Peng'im): to²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻo³
    • Yale: twǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuoo
    • Palladius: то (to)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰwɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: to⁵, to²
    • Yale: tóh, tó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: to⁵, to²
    • Guangdong Romanization: to⁵, to²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː¹³/, /tʰɔː³⁵/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tǒ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘
    • Tâi-lô: thóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó
    • Tâi-lô: thó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toir
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thò
    • Tâi-lô: thò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toix
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ²¹/

Note:

• thó͘/thó - literary;
• thò - vernacular (俗).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: to²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thó
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰo⁵²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 妥
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰuo²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/tʰuo²¹³/
	Tianjin	/tʰuo¹³/
	Jinan	/tʰuə⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/tʰuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰuo⁵³/
	Xi'an	/tʰuo⁵³/
	Xining	/tʰu⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/tʰuə⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰuə⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/tʰuɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/tʰuo⁴²/
	Chengdu	/tʰo⁵³/
	Guiyang	/tʰo⁴²/
	Kunming	/tʰo⁵³/
	Nanjing	/tʰo²¹²/
	Hefei	/tʰʊ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰuɤ⁵³/
	Pingyao	/tʰuə⁵³/
	Hohhot	/tʰuɤ⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/tʰu³⁵/
	Suzhou	/tʰəu⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/tʰo⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/tʰɤu³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰo³⁵/
	Tunxi	/tʰo³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/tʰo⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/tʰo⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰo²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰo³¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʰo¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰɔ²³/
	Nanning	/tʰɔ³⁵/ /tʰɔ²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/tʰɔ¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/to⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/tʰo³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/tʰɔ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tʰo⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ho³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰuɑ^X/

Rime
Character	妥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwaX/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑX/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰuɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	to2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ˤojʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰoːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	妥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ thwaX ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥ˁojʔ/
English	at ease
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	妥
Reading #	1/1
No.	12585
Phonetic component	妥
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	妥
Old Chinese	/*n̥ʰoːlʔ/
Notes	金文通蕤賓之蕤

Definitions

妥

1. appropriate; suitable
2. finished; settled

Compounds

• 不妥 (bùtuǒ)
• 停妥
• 妥切
• 妥善 (tuǒshàn)
• 妥帖 (tuǒtiē)
• 妥洽
• 妥靠
• 安妥 (āntuǒ)
• 平妥
• 挺妥

• 搞妥
• 未妥
• 欠妥 (qiàntuǒ)
• 備妥／备妥
• 千妥萬妥／千妥万妥
• 千妥萬當／千妥万当
• 妥協／妥协 (tuǒxié)
• 妥員／妥员
• 妥妥貼貼／妥妥贴贴

• 妥實／妥实
• 妥當／妥当 (tuǒdang)
• 妥當人／妥当人
• 妥貼／妥贴
• 威妥瑪式／威妥玛式
• 擬妥／拟妥
• 穩妥／稳妥 (wěntuǒ)
• 談妥／谈妥 (tántuǒ)
• 辦妥／办妥 (bàntuǒ)

References

• “妥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Shinjitai	妥
Kyūjitai	妥󠄁 妥+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	妥󠄃 妥+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

妥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. gentle

Readings

• Go-on: た (ta)
• Kan-on: た (ta)
• Kan’yō-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
• Kun: おだやか (odayaka, 妥やか)
• Nanori: やす (yasu); やすし (yasushi)

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Korean

Hanja

妥 (eum 타 (ta))

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Vietnamese

Han character

妥: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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