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See also:
U+6CB1, 沱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB1

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 85, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水十心 (EJP), four-corner 33111, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17243
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1594, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6CB1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms ancient

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ) : semantic (water) + phonetic (OC *l̥ʰaːl)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (7)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter da
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/da/
Li
Rong
/dɑ/
Wang
Li
/dɑ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tuó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
to4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tuó
Middle
Chinese
‹ da ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁaj/
English flow (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
Reading # 1/2
No. 12218
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːl/

Definitions

  1. (dialectal) small bay in a river (also used in place names)
  2. () Tuojiang; Tuo River
  3. tearful; wailing
  4. rainy

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (7)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter daX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/daX/
Li
Rong
/dɑX/
Wang
Li
/dɑX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
do6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 12229
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːlʔ/

Definitions

  1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“moat”).
(This character is an obsolete form of ).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: (da)
  • Kan-on: (ta)

Korean

Hanja

(ta) (hangeul , revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: đà[1][2]
: Nôm readings: đà[1][3], đờ, đừ[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of Đà (the Black/Da River, a river in Vietnam).
  2. chữ Hán form of Đà (the Tuo River in Sichuan or the river of the same name in Hunan).

References