橢

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See also: 椭 and 楕
橢 U+6A62, 橢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A62
← 橡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 橣 →

Translingual

Han character

橢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木弓中月 (DNLB), four-corner 44927, composition ⿰木隋)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 554, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15565
  • Dae Jaweon: page 943, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1285, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6A62

Chinese

trad. 橢
simp. 椭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鬌 *ʔl'oːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːls
橢 *l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷 *l̥ʰoːls, *l'oːlʔ
毻 *l̥ʰoːls, *l̥ʰoːds
堶 *l'oːl
憜 *l'oːlʔ
惰 *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls
嶞 *l'oːlʔ
髓 *slolʔ
瀡 *slolʔ, *slols
隨 *ljol
隓 *hlol
隳 *hlol
撱 *lolʔ

Etymology

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”); see 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”) for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 橢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他果切
Baxter thwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰwaX/
Li
Rong 		/tʰuɑX/
Wang
Li 		/tʰuɑX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tʰuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tuǒ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		to2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 橢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tuǒ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ thwaX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ˁojʔ/
English oval

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 橢
Reading # 1/1
No. 5419
Phonetic
component 		隓
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		妥
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰoːlʔ/

Definitions

橢

  1. † oval-shaped container
  2. long and narrow; oval-shaped; elliptical
    橢圓／椭圆  ―  tuǒyuán  ―  ellipse; oval shape

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

橢

  1. Only used in 科橢／科椭.

References

Japanese

Kanji

橢

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: た (ta)
  • Kan-on: た (ta)
  • Kan’yō-on: だ (da)
  • Kun: こばんが (kobanga)

Korean

Hanja

橢 (eum 타 (ta))

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Vietnamese

Han character

橢: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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References

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