討

Stroke order

討 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口木戈 (YRDI), four-corner 0460₀, composition ⿰訁寸)

• 傠, 罸, 𧏛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1147, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35231
• Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3940, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8A0E

Historical forms of the character 討
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰuːʔ) : abbreviated phonetic 肘 (OC *tkuʔ) + semantic 言.

Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 言 (“speech”) + 寸 (“hand”) – rectify.

討

1. to send armed forces to suppress
2. to denounce; to condemn
3. to examine; to discuss

   商討／商讨  ―  shāngtǎo  ―  to discuss

4. to ask for; to beg

   討飯吃／讨饭吃  ―  tǎo fàn chī  ―  to beg for food

   討回公道／讨回公道  ―  tǎohuígōngdào  ―  to seek justice

   討鈔票／讨钞票 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁵thau ⁵tshau-phiau₅ [Wugniu]  ―  to beg for money

   雞母扒糞掃，無事討事做。 [Eastern Min, trad.]
   鸡母扒粪扫，无事讨事做。 [Eastern Min, simp.]

   Giĕ-mō̤ bà bóng-só̤, mò̤-dâi tō̤-dâi có̤. / [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   Have nothing else to do.

5. to invite

   討人喜歡／讨人喜欢  ―  tǎo rén xǐhuān  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   討人厭／讨人厌  ―  tǎo rén yàn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. to marry
7. (Zhao'an Hakka) to want

   • 𠊎討坐高鐵去高雄　坐火車去台中 [Zhao'an Hakka, trad.]
     𠊎讨坐高铁去高雄　坐火车去台中 [Zhao'an Hakka, simp.]

     From: 2022, 曾仲瑋, lyrics by 曾仲瑋 and 李幸妃, 好天氣

     ngaiˋ too^ cooˇ gooˇ teedˊ kui^ gooˇ hiungˋ, cooˇ foo^ chaˇ kui^ taiˋ zhungˇ [Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System]

     I want to take the high-speed rail to Kaohsiung, take the train to Taichung

8. (Zhao'an Hakka) to be about to

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to chastise

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: うつ (utsu, 討つ, Jōyō)、たずねる (tazuneru, 討ねる)

From Middle Chinese 討 (MC thawX).

• (to attack; to subjugate; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
• (to discuss; to debate; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

討

Wikisource

討 (eumhun 칠 토 (chil to))

1. hanja form^? of 토 (“to attack; to destroy”)
2. hanja form^? of 토 (“to subjugate; to subdue”)
3. hanja form^? of 토 (“to discuss; to debate”)

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

討: Hán Nôm readings: thảo

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.