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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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兜
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
dōu
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ tuw ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*tˁo/
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| English
|
helmet, hood
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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兜
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鍪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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2449
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8818
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Phonetic
component
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兜
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矛
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Rime
group
|
侯
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幽
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Rime
subdivision
|
0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
兠
|
謀
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Old
Chinese
|
/*toː/
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/*mu/
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Noun
兜鍪
- (archaic) an ancient type of helmet (which resembled a kind of iron cooking pot used at the time)
令三百人皆被甲兜鍪，操劍盾而立，告以軍法，隨鼓進退，左右迴旋，使知其禁。 [MSC, trad.]
令三百人皆被甲兜鍪，操剑盾而立，告以军法，随鼓进退，左右回旋，使知其禁。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 趙曄 Zhao Ye 《吳越春秋》 Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue
- Lìng sānbǎi rén jiē bèi jiǎ dōumóu, cāo jiàn dùn ér lì, gào yǐ jūnfǎ, suí gǔ jìntuì, zuǒyòu huíxuán, shǐ zhī qí jìn.
- (Sunzi) ordered three hundred ladies to wear armors and helmets, to stand and drill with swords and shields; he instructed them with military rules, to follow the drums to advance and retreat, to turn left and right and to circle, let them know prohibitions.
- (archaic, figurative) soldier