投

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投 U+6295, 投
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6295
← 抔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 抖 →

Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 57047, composition ⿰扌殳)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 421, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6295

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 投

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (殳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
吺 *toː
祋 *toːd, *toːds
投 *doː
骰 *doː, *srɯɡ
酘 *doːs
坄 *doː, *leɡ
殳 *djo
杸 *djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).

Etymology

Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • dèu - literary;
  • dàu - vernacular.
Note:
  • tiô/tô͘ - literary;
  • tâu - vernacular.
Rime
Character 投
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 度侯切
Baxter duw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dəw/
Li
Rong 		/du/
Wang
Li 		/dəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 投
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tóu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ duw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁo/
English throw

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 投
Reading # 1/1
No. 11716
Phonetic
component 		殳
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		頭
Old
Chinese 		/*doː/

Definitions

投

  1. to throw; to fling; to pitch
    投標槍／投标枪  ―  tóu biāoqiāng  ―  to throw a javelin
  2. to throw oneself into
    投井  ―  tóujǐng  ―  to jump into a well (to drown oneself)
  3. to put in; to drop
    投票  ―  tóupiào  ―  to cast a ballot
    投資／投资  ―  tóuzī  ―  to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)
  4. to fit in with
    脾氣相投／脾气相投  ―  píqì xiàngtóu  ―  to be alike in temperament
  5. to send
    投稿  ―  tóugǎo  ―  to submit a piece of writing
  6. to cast; to project
    同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
    同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā.
    The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.
  7. to join; to go to
    投宿  ―  tóusù  ―  to lodge
    棄暗投明／弃暗投明  ―  qì'àntóumíng  ―  to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)
  8. (colloquial) to rinse (clothes) in water
  9. (Hokkien) to report; to tell on; to snitch; to inform one's superiors; to complain to one's parents or superiors
    學生去共老師投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
    学生去共老师投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
    Ha̍k-seng khì kā lāu-su tâu. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    The students reported to the teacher.
  10. † Alternative form of 骰 (“dice; die”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

投

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to throw
  2. to discard
  3. abandon

Readings

  • Go-on: ず (zu)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: なげる (nageru, 投げる, Jōyō)

Counter

投(とう) • (-tō) 

  1. (baseball) pitches

Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầu

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