屠

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屠 U+5C60, 屠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C60
← 屟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 屡 →

屠 U+2F877, 屠
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F877
← 㞁
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 屮 →

Translingual

Han character

屠 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸十大日 (SJKA), four-corner 77264, composition ⿸尸者)

  1. butcher, slaughter, massacre
  2. slaughterer
  3. slaughterhouse
  4. a surname

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 303, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7761
  • Dae Jaweon: page 600, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 976, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5C60

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 屠

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daː, *da) : semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tô͘ - literary;
  • tó͘ - vernacular variant, more common in Quanzhou.
Rime
Character 屠
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 同都切
Baxter du
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/duo/
Shao
Rongfen 		/do/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dɔ/
Li
Rong 		/do/
Wang
Li 		/du/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tou4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 屠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ du ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁa/
English butcher (v.)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 屠
Reading # 1/2
No. 16978
Phonetic
component 		者
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		徒
Old
Chinese 		/*daː/

Definitions

屠

  1. to slaughter livestock; to butcher livestock
  2. to massacre; to slaughter
  3. butcher
  4. a surname
    屠呦呦  ―  Tú Yōuyōu  ―  Tu Youyou

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 屠
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直魚切
Baxter drjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɖɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖɨə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ȡiɔ/
Wang
Li 		/ȡĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cyu4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 屠
Reading # 2/2
No. 16995
Phonetic
component 		者
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		除
Old
Chinese 		/*da/

Definitions

屠

  1. Only used in 休屠.

References

Japanese

Kanji

屠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. slaughter
  2. massacre

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

屠 • (do, jeo) (hangeul 도, 저, revised do, jeo, McCune–Reischauer to, chŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屠: Hán Nôm readings: đồ

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