答

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See also: 荅
答 U+7B54, 答
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B54
← 筓
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 筕 →

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

答 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人一口 (HOMR), four-corner 88601, composition ⿱𥫗合)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 883, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26006
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2968, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7B54

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tkuːb) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb). Originally, it was a variant of 荅, where the semantic component 艸 (grass) was later mistakenly replaced by 竹 (bamboo). It expresses the meaning of "to respond."[1]

References

  1. ^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Etymology

Cognate with 對 (OC *tuːbs, “to respond”) (Schuessler, 2007), which is the exoactive of 答 (OC *tkuːb). Compare Tibetan འདེབས ('debs, “to cast; to send”) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation 1

trad. 答
simp. # 答
2nd round simp. 荅
alternative forms 荅
畣
畗
𣌭
Note:
  • tah - vernacular;
  • tap - literary (reply, answer).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 答
Mandarin Beijing /ta³⁵/
/ta⁵⁵/ ～應
Harbin /ta²⁴/
/ta⁴⁴/ ～理
Tianjin /tɑ²¹/ 回～
/tɑ⁴⁵/ ～對
Jinan /ta²¹³/
Qingdao /ta⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ta²⁴/
Xi'an /ta²¹/
Xining /ta⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ta¹³/
Lanzhou /ta¹³/
Ürümqi /ta²¹³/
Wuhan /ta²¹³/
Chengdu /ta³¹/
Guiyang /ta²¹/
Kunming /ta̠³¹/
Nanjing /tɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /tɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /taʔ²/
Pingyao /tʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /taʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /taʔ⁵/
Suzhou /taʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /tɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /tø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /taʔ²¹/
Tunxi /tɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ta²⁴/
Xiangtan /tɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /taʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tap̚¹/
Taoyuan /tɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tap̚³/
Nanning /tap̚³³/
Hong Kong /tap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tap̚³²/
/taʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ta²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔda⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 答
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都合切
Baxter top
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/təp̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/təp̚/
Li
Rong 		/tᴀp̚/
Wang
Li 		/tɒp̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		da
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		daap3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 答
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dá
Middle
Chinese 		‹ top ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁp/
English answer

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 答
Reading # 1/1
No. 4944
Phonetic
component 		合
Rime
group 		緝
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		答
Old
Chinese 		/*tkuːb/

Definitions

答

  1. to answer; to reply
  2. to repay; to requite

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Southwestern Tai: *tɔːpᴰ¹ᴸ

Pronunciation 2

trad. 答
simp. # 答
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 答
Mandarin Beijing /ta³⁵/
/ta⁵⁵/ ～應
Harbin /ta²⁴/
/ta⁴⁴/ ～理
Tianjin /tɑ²¹/ 回～
/tɑ⁴⁵/ ～對
Jinan /ta²¹³/
Qingdao /ta⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ta²⁴/
Xi'an /ta²¹/
Xining /ta⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ta¹³/
Lanzhou /ta¹³/
Ürümqi /ta²¹³/
Wuhan /ta²¹³/
Chengdu /ta³¹/
Guiyang /ta²¹/
Kunming /ta̠³¹/
Nanjing /tɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /tɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /taʔ²/
Pingyao /tʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /taʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /taʔ⁵/
Suzhou /taʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /tɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /tø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /taʔ²¹/
Tunxi /tɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ta²⁴/
Xiangtan /tɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /taʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tap̚¹/
Taoyuan /tɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tap̚³/
Nanning /tap̚³³/
Hong Kong /tap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tap̚³²/
/taʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ta²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔda⁵⁵/

Definitions

答

  1. Used in the compounds below.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

答

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. answer

Readings

Noun

答(こたえ) • (kotae) ←こたへ (kotafe)?

  1. Alternative spelling of 答え

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 答 (MC top). Recorded as Middle Korean 답 (tap) (Yale: tap) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

答 (eumhun 답할 답 (daphal dap))

  1. hanja form? of 답 (“answer”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

答: Hán Nôm readings: đáp, đớp, hóp

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