篤

篤 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸手火 (HSQF), four-corner 8832₇, composition ⿱𥫗馬)

• 𡳽, 𩠸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 894, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26344
• Dae Jaweon: page 1321, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2997, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7BE4

Historical forms of the character 篤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tuːɡ): phonetic 竹 (OC *tuɡ) + semantic 馬 (“horse”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tuːk (“deep; thick”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan འཐུག་པ ('thug pa, “thick; deep”).

篤

1. (literary) honest; sincere; earnest; whole-hearted

   • 言忠信，行篤敬。
     言忠信，行笃敬。

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yán zhōng xìn, xíng dǔ jìng.

     Speech that is true and honest, behavior that is sincere and respectful.

2. (literary, of illness) serious; severe; critical
3. (literary) solid; firm; strong; hard
4. (literary) deep; profound
5. (Wu) calm; leisurely; slow
6. a surname

篤

1. (Cantonese) to poke; to prod

   篤計數機／笃计数机   ―  duk¹ gai³ sou³ gei¹   ―  to press a calculator

   做咩攞支筆篤我。
   做咩𫽋支笔笃我。

   zou⁶ me¹ lo² zi¹ bat¹ duk¹ ngo⁵.

   Why did you poke me with a pen?

Cognate with Hakka 䐁 (dug5).

篤

1. (Cantonese) end; bottom

   行到篤就會見到㗎喇。
   行到笃就会见到㗎喇。

   haang⁴ dou³ duk¹ zau⁶ wui⁵ gin³ dou^3-2 gaa³ laa³.

   You will see it when you reach the end .

2. (Cantonese) distant; of the further end

   間舖頭喺條巷最篤嗰度。
   间铺头喺条巷最笃嗰度。

   gaan¹ pou³ tau^4-2 hai² tiu⁴ hong⁶ zeoi³ duk¹ go² dou⁶.

   The store is at the furthest end of the alley.

Same etymology as etymology 3 (Mai, 2019).

篤

1. (Cantonese) Classifier for excreta. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Cognate with Shanghainese 拉, as in 阿拉 (“we”), 伊拉 (“they”) (You, 1995).

篤

1. (Suzhounese) Suffix indicating plural for pronouns.

   俉篤／俉笃   ―  ⁶n-toq₀   ―  you (plural)

   俚篤／俚笃   ―  ¹li-toq₀   ―  they

篤

1. (Suzhounese, placed after an adjective) very

   好篤／好笃   ―  very good

(Jōyō kanji)

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• On (unclassified): とく (toku, Jōyō)
• Kun: あつい (atsui, 篤い)

篤(あつし) • (Atsushi) 

1. a male given name

篤 (eumhun 도타울 독 (dotaul dok))

1. hanja form^? of 독 (“deep, true, sincere, genuine”)

篤: Hán Nôm readings: đốc, dóc, dốc

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