盜

See also: 盗

盜 U+76DC, 盜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76DC ← 盛 [U+76DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 盝 → [U+76DD]

Translingual

Japanese	盗
Simplified	盗
Traditional	盜

Han character

盜 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水人月廿 (EOBT), four-corner 3710₇, composition ⿱㳄皿)

Descendants

• 盗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 794, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23006
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2564, character 13
• Unihan data for U+76DC

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Chinese

trad.		盜
simp.		盗
alternative forms		𠉭 𠩼 𤋆 𤑂 𨹇 𠉭 𠩼 𤋆 𤑂 𨹇 𨹒 𠪁

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 㳄 (“spitting man”) + 皿 (“dish”) – a man spitting in a dish, an oath among thieves.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dào (dao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou⁶
• Jin (Wiktionary): dau³
• Eastern Min (BUC): dô̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tō͘ / tō

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dao⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dào
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dào
    • Wade–Giles: tao⁴
    • Yale: dàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daw
    • Palladius: дао (dao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dou⁶
    • Yale: douh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯²²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: dau³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /tau⁴⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dô̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tō͘
    • Tâi-lô: tōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: do
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tō
    • Tâi-lô: tō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɤ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /to²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /to³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dao⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tău
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dawH

Rime
Character	盜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒到切
Baxter	dawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dawH/
Li Rong	/dɑuH/
Wang Li	/dɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤaw(k)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dào
Middle Chinese	‹ dawH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁaw(k)-s/
English	steal
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	盜
Reading #	1/1
No.	2164
Phonetic component	盜
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	導
Old Chinese	/*daːws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 盜

1. (transitive) to steal

   盜竊／盗窃  ―  dàoqiè  ―  to steal

   盜案／盗案  ―  dào'àn  ―  theft

   大量財物被盜。／大量财物被盗。  ―  Dàliàng cáiwù bèi dào.  ―  A large amount of property was stolen.

2. ^⁜ illegally

   盜掘／盗掘  ―  dàojué  ―  to dig illegally

   盜獵／盗猎  ―  dàoliè  ―  to hunt illegally

   盜伐／盗伐  ―  dàofá  ―  to cut off (trees) illegally

3. ^⁜ thief; robber

   大盜／大盗  ―  dàdào  ―  robber that commits large robberies or many robberies in an unrestrained manner

   盜跖／盗跖  ―  Dào Zhí  ―  Robber Zhi (a legedary figure or fictional character)

   海盜／海盗  ―  hǎidào  ―  pirate

   開門揖盜／开门揖盗  ―  kāiményīdào  ―  to introduce bad people and bring disaster upon oneself

References

• “盜”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02747

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Japanese

Shinjitai	盗
Kyūjitai	盜

Kanji

盜

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 盗)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)
• Kun: ぬすむ (nusumu, 盜む)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 盜 (MC dawH).

Historical readings

• Recorded as Middle Korean 또ᇢ〮 (Yale: ttwów) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
• Recorded as Middle Korean 盗/도〯 (twǒ) (Yale: twǒ) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [to̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [도]

Hanja

Wikisource

盜 (eumhun 도둑 도 (doduk do))

1. hanja form^? of 도 (“thief”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 도청 (盜聽, docheong)
• 강도 (強盜, gangdo)
• 도용 (盜用, doyong)
• 절도 (竊盜, jeoldo)
• 도적 (盜賊, dojeok)
• 도난 (盜難, donan)
• 도물 (盜物, domul)
• 도굴 (盜掘, dogul)
• 도루 (盜壘, doru)
• 도벽 (盜癖, dobyeok)
• 해도 (海盜, haedo)
• 도강 (盜講, dogang)

References

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

盜: Hán Nôm readings: đạo

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