濤

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See also: 涛
濤 U+6FE4, 濤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FE4
← 濣
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 濥 →

Translingual

Han character

濤 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水土弓戈 (EGNI), four-corner 34141, composition ⿰氵壽)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 656, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18508
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1066, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1765, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+6FE4

Chinese

trad. 濤
simp. 涛
alternative forms 𨞪／𫜷
𣾭
𣵬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 濤
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (壽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
禱 *tuːʔ, *tuːs
擣 *tuːʔ
檮 *tuːʔ, *duː, *du
壔 *tuːʔ
懤 *tuːʔ, *du, *dus
濤 *duː, *duː
燾 *duː, *duːs
翿 *duː, *duːs
幬 *duːs, *du
儔 *duːs, *du
譸 *tu
籌 *du
疇 *du
躊 *du
燽 *du
薵 *du
魗 *tʰjuʔ, *dju
醻 *dju
壽 *djuʔ, *djus
璹 *djuʔ, *djuɡ
鑄 *tjos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *duː, *duː) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 壽 (OC *djuʔ, *djus).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 濤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒刀切
Baxter daw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dɑu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dɑu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/daw/
Li
Rong 		/dɑu/
Wang
Li 		/dɑu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		táo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tou4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 濤 濤
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11684 11686
Phonetic
component 		壽 壽
Rime
group 		幽 幽
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		陶 陶
Old
Chinese 		/*duː/ /*duː/

Definitions

濤

  1. billows; large waves
  2. sound of the sea

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

濤

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 涛)

  1. waves, billows

Readings

  • Go-on: どう (dō)←だう (dau, historical)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō)←たう (tau, historical)
  • Kun: なみ (nami, 濤)
  • Nanori: なみ (nami)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
濤
なみ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 濤 – see the following entry.
【波】3
third grade kanji
Kanji reading:
は, なみ, ぽ
(This term, 濤, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 濤 (MC daw). Recorded as Middle Korean 도 (two) (Yale: two) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

濤 (eumhun 물결 도 (mulgyeol do))

  1. hanja form? of 도 (“waves”)

Compounds

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

濤: Hán Nôm readings: đào

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