拖

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See also: 拕
拖 U+62D6, 拖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62D6
← 拕
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 拗 →

Translingual

Han character

拖 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手人心木 (QOPD), four-corner 58012, composition ⿰扌㐌)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 426, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11961
  • Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1853, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+62D6

Chinese

trad. 拖
simp. # 拖
alternative forms 拕／拖
扡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
他 *l̥ʰaːl
拖 *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞 *l'aːl
池 *l'aːl, *l'al
灺 *ljalʔ
鍦 *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵 *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也 *laːlʔ
忚 *hleːl
髢 *l'eːls
杝 *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔 *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳 *l'al
阤 *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施 *hljal, *hljals
絁 *hljal
葹 *hljal
弛 *hljalʔ
箷 *lal
衪 *lel, *lalʔ
暆 *lel
迆 *lal, *lalʔ
酏 *lal, *lalʔ
匜 *lal, *lalʔ
迤 *lalʔ
扡 *lalʔ
崺 *lalʔ
貤 *lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地 *l'els

Variant form of 拕 / 拖 (tuō), phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls) : semantic 手 + phonetic 它 (OC *l̥ʰaːl).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tuói - vernacular;
  • tó̤ - literary.
Note:
  • tăi, tuà - vernacular;
  • tŏ̤ - literary.
Note:
  • thoa - vernacular;
  • tho/tho͘ - literary.
Note:
  • tha - vernacular;
  • th(o)u - literary.
    Rime
    Character 拖
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 透 (6)
    Final (韻) 歌 (94)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 吐邏切
    Baxter thaH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/tʰɑH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/tʰɑH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/tʰɑH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/tʰaH/
    Li
    Rong         		/tʰɑH/
    Wang
    Li         		/tʰɑH/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/tʰɑH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		tuò
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		to3
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 拖
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		tuō
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ tha ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l̥ˁaj/
    English draw, pull

    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 拖 拖
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    No. 14766 14767
    Phonetic
    component         		也 也
    Rime
    group         		歌 歌
    Rime
    subdivision         		1 1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		佗 拖
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l̥ʰaːl/ /*l̥ʰaːls/
    Notes 俗拕字

    Definitions

    拖

    1. to drag; to tow; to haul
      拖車／拖车  ―  tuōchē  ―  tow truck
      強拖／强拖  ―  qiáng tuō  ―  to forcefully drag
      拖喼 [Cantonese]  ―  to1 gip1   ―  to lug a suitcase
    2. to mop
      拖地  ―  tuōdì  ―  to mop the floor
    3. to droop; to dangle; to hang down; to sag
    4. to hold hands
      手拖手  ―  shǒu tuō shǒu  ―  hand holding hand
    5. to delay; to put off; to procrastinate; to adjourn; to defer; to prolong
      拖時間／拖时间 [Cantonese]  ―  to1 si4 gaan3   ―  to stall
    6. to sustain (a sound)
    7. to pin down; to tie up; to check (e.g. the enemy forces); to encumber
    8. Short for 拖鞋 (tuōxié, “flip-flops; slippers”).
      人字拖 [Cantonese]  ―  jan4 zi6 to1   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    9. (Cantonese, slang) fight
      還拖／还拖 [Cantonese]  ―  waan4 to1   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    10. a surname: Tuo

    Synonyms

    • (to drag):
    • (to droop):
    • (to delay):

    Antonyms

    • (antonym(s) of “to delay”):

    Compounds

    References

    • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “拖”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 549.

    Japanese

    Kanji

    拖

    (Hyōgai kanji)

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    Readings

    • On (unclassified): た (ta)、だ (da)、い (i)
    • Kun: ひく (hiku, 拖く)

    Korean

    Hanja

    拖 (eumhun 끌 타 (kkeul ta))

    1. hanja form? of 타 (“to drag”)

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    拖: Hán Nôm readings: đà, đớ, đợ, đỡ, tha, đoa, đòa/đoà

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