投

投 U+6295, 投 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6295 ← 抔 [U+6294] CJK Unified Ideographs 抖 → [U+6296]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌殳)

Derived characters

• 𠲴, 𫽌, 𫽟, 𡷠, 𥦆, 𭠚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 421, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
• Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6295

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		投

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
吺	*toː
祋	*toːd, *toːds
投	*doː
骰	*doː, *srɯɡ
酘	*doːs
坄	*doː, *leɡ
殳	*djo
杸	*djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).

Etymology

Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 投

1. to throw; to fling; to pitch

   投標槍／投标枪  ―  tóu biāoqiāng  ―  to throw a javelin

2. to throw oneself into

   投井  ―  tóujǐng  ―  to jump into a well (to drown oneself)

3. to put in; to drop

   投票  ―  tóupiào  ―  to cast a ballot

   投資／投资  ―  tóuzī  ―  to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)

4. to fit in with

   脾氣相投／脾气相投  ―  píqì xiàngtóu  ―  to be alike in temperament

5. to send

   投稿  ―  tóugǎo  ―  to submit a piece of writing

6. to cast; to project

   同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
   同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā. [Pinyin]

   The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.

7. to join; to go to

   投宿  ―  tóusù  ―  to lodge

   棄暗投明／弃暗投明  ―  qì'àntóumíng  ―  to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)

8. (colloquial) to rinse (clothes) in water
9. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 骰 (tóu, “dice; die”).

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

投

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to throw
2. to discard
3. abandon

Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: なげる (nageru, 投げる, Jōyō)

Counter

投(とう) or 投(counter) • (tō or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|とう]]

1. (baseball) pitches

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Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầu

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