塌

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塌 U+584C, 塌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-584C
← 塋
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 塍 →

Translingual

Han character

塌 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土日尸一 (GASM), four-corner 46127, composition ⿰土𦐇)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 235, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5322
  • Dae Jaweon: page 472, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 471, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+584C

Chinese

trad. 塌
simp. # 塌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蹋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
傝 *tʰoːms, *tʰaːb
搨 *tʰoːb, *taːb
蹹 *doːb
榻 *tʰaːb
遢 *tʰaːb
鰨 *tʰaːb
毾 *tʰaːb
塌 *tʰaːb
溻 *tʰaːb
蹋 *daːb
躢 *daːb
闒 *daːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰaːb) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 𦐇 ()

Pronunciation

Note:
  • thap - literary (“to fill up, to stack, to lose money”);
  • lap - vernacular (“to become sunken”).
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 塌
Reading # 1/1
No. 12247
Phonetic
component 		蹋
Rime
group 		盍
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		榻
Old
Chinese 		/*tʰaːb/

Definitions

塌

  1. to collapse; to fall down; to cave in
  2. to sink; to droop
  3. to calm down; to settle down
  4. (dialectal) to slump; to sink (of morale, etc.)
  5. (Hokkien) to fill up; to fill in; to stuff (a gap, blank, vacancy, etc.)
  6. (Hokkien) to stack or press close together crisscrossed
  7. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lose money
  8. (Hokkien) to become sunken; to hollow; to form a depression

Synonyms

  • (to collapse):
  • (to droop):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

塌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): とう (tō)

Korean

Hanja

塌 • (tap) (hangeul 탑, revised tap, McCune–Reischauer t'ap)

  1. grind
  2. collapse; break
  3. drop; hang down
  4. first ploughing of the rice field

References

Vietnamese

Han character

塌: Hán Nôm readings: tháp, thớp, thóp, thấp, thạp, thọp, thợp

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