豆

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

See images of
Radical 151 豆

豆 (Kangxi radical 151, 豆+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 1010₈, composition ⿱𠮛䒑)

1. Kangxi radical #151, ⾖.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/豆
• 侸, 哣, 𭎞, 𭐞, 㛒, 㤱, 𢭃, 浢, 𤞟, 𨹜, 逗, 梪, 𭴧, 𪻡, 脰, 䄈, 𥆖, 短, 裋, 𥺉, 𬗖, 䛠, 𧻿, 𨁋, 𮝒, 𫑶, 鋀, 𩊪, 餖(饾), 䱏, 𪏄
• 剅, 𰃛, 𭔰, 郖, 㪷, 㰯, 𣪌, 毭, 𧡀, 頭, 𪁞, 㐙, 壴, 𡘰, 荳, 𪲓, 登, 𥥷, 壹, 䇺, 𪉣, 𭅋, 㢄, 痘, 䖒, 𫔡, 𩰒, 𡇧

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1191, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
• Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3565, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8C46

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 豆 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 豆 (器皿) (Written Standard Chinese^?)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 豆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese 菽 (shū).

Etymology

Derived from 頭 (OC *doː), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *du (“head”) (STEDT).

"Soybean > bean" is possibly the same word as "round vessel" (Unger, 1984)

Pronunciation

Definitions

豆

1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 m)

   綠豆／绿豆  ―  lǜdòu  ―  mung bean

   蠶豆／蚕豆  ―  cándòu  ―  fava bean

   豌豆  ―  wāndòu  ―  pea

2. bean-shaped object (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 m)

   咖啡豆  ―  kāfēidòu  ―  coffee bean

3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice

Compounds

Descendants

• → Proto-Southwestern Tai: *tʰuəᴮ¹
  • Ahom: 𑜌𑜥 (thū)
  • Khün: ᨳ᩠ᩅᩫ᩵
  • Lao: ຖົ່ວ (thūa)
  • Lü: ᦷᦏᧈ (ṫho¹)
  • Northern Thai: ᨳ᩠ᩅᩫ᩵
  • Phake: ထုဝ် (thuw)
  • Shan: ထူဝ်ႇ (thò)
  • Tai Dam: ꪖ꪿ꪺ (thua2)
  • Tai Dón: ꪖꪺꫀ (tho2)
  • Tai Nüa: ᥗᥨᥝᥱ (thǒw)
  • Thai: ถั่ว (tùua)

References

• “豆”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

豆

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. bean, legume

Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu, Jōyō ^†)^{←づ (du, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: まめ (mame, 豆, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ど (do)

Compounds

Etymology

⟨mame₂⟩ → /mame/

From Old Japanese, in turn from Proto-Japonic *mamay.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まめ​ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

豆(まめ) • (mame) 

1. the pulses
2. a bean
   • 1988 July 30 [1984 July 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “世(せ)界(かい)名(めい)作(さく)童(どう)話(わ)第(だい)５(ご)巻(かん)　ジャックと豆(まめ)の木(き) (世(せ)界(かい)名(めい)作(さく)童(どう)話(わ)第(だい)５(ご)巻(かん)　ジャックと豆(まめ)の木(き))”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 2), 10th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 120:

     ジャックは豆(まめ)の木をつたって、雲の上にのぼりました。

     Jakku wa mame no ki o tsutatte, kumo no ue ni noborimashita.

     Jack scrambled along the beanstalk, climbed up above the clouds.

3. a pea
4. a soybean

Idioms

• 豆(まめ)を植(う)えて稗(ひえ)を得(え)る (mame o uete hie o eru, “to do something expecting good results, instead getting bad results”)

References

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 豆 (MC duwH).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

豆

Wikisource

豆 (eumhun 콩 두 (kong du))

1. Hanja form^? of 두 (“bean”).

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

豆: Hán Nôm readings: đậu, dấu

1. chữ Hán form of đậu (“bean”).

Derived terms

References

Zhuang

Noun

豆

1. Sawndip form of daeuh (“seaweed, algae”)

Adjective

豆

1. Sawndip form of daeuh (“green (as seaweed or algae)”)