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Translingual
Han character
禿 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹山 (HDHU), four-corner 20217, composition ⿱禾儿)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24910
- Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2588, character 7
- Unihan data for U+79BF
Chinese
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 禿
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Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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Transcribed ancient scripts
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Old Chinese
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禿
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*tʰoːɡ
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鵚
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*tʰoːɡ
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Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 毛 (“hair”) + 儿 (“person”). 毛 later corrupted into 禾.
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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禿
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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tū
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Middle Chinese
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‹ thuwk ›
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Old Chinese
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/*ˁok/
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English
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bald
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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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禿
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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12484
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Phonetic component
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禿
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Rime group
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屋
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Rime subdivision
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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秃
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Old Chinese
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/*tʰoːɡ/
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Notes
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段注以爲秀聲
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Definitions
禿
- (of a person's scalp) having little or no hair; bald
- (of a mountain, vegetation, etc.) bare; barren; stripped
- (of a tool) blunt
- (of a work) unfinished; unsatisfactory
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
禿
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
禿 • (hage)
- baldness
- treelessness
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alteration of kaburo below.
Pronunciation
Noun
禿 • (kamuro)
- bobbed hair
- baldness
- young girl attendant of a high-class prostitute
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
禿 • (kaburo)
- bobbed hair
- baldness
- young girl attendant of a high-class prostitute
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Middle Chinese 禿 (tʰuk̚)
Affix
禿 • (toku)
- bald
Derived terms
Etymology 5
From Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank, is bald.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
禿 • (Hage)
- (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive) SoftBank (telecommunications company based in Japan)
- (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive) Masayoshi Son
Related terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
禿 • (dok) (hangeul 독, revised dok, McCune–Reischauer tok, Yale tok)
- Bald