駝

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See also: 驼
駝 U+99DD, 駝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99DD
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 駞 →

Translingual

Han character

駝 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火十心 (SFJP), four-corner 73311, composition ⿰馬它)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1437, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1961, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4549, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+99DD

Chinese

trad. 駝
simp. 驼
alternative forms 駞／𫘞
𩣾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (它) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
佗 *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl
拕 *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːlʔ
它 *l̥ʰaːl
蛇 *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal
袉 *l̥ʰaːlʔ, *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ
鴕 *l'aːl
駝 *l'aːl
紽 *l'aːl
鮀 *l'aːl
陀 *l'aːl
沱 *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ
跎 *l'aːl
詑 *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ, *hlel, *lal, *l̥ʰoːl
酡 *l'aːl
迱 *l'aːl
舵 *l'aːlʔ
柁 *l'aːlʔ
鉈 *ɦljaːl, *hljal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'aːl) : semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 它 (OC *l̥ʰaːl).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 駝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒河切
Baxter da
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dɑ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dɑ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/da/
Li
Rong 		/dɑ/
Wang
Li 		/dɑ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tuó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		to4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 駝
Reading # 1/1
No. 12214
Phonetic
component 		它
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		駝
Old
Chinese 		/*l'aːl/

Definitions

駝

  1. camel
  2. to be humpbacked; to be hunchbacked
  3. to carry on the back
    alt. forms: 馱 / 驮

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

駝

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. hump

Readings

  • Go-on: だ (da)
  • Kan-on: た (ta)
  • Kun: せむし (semushi, 駝)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 駝 (MC da). Recorded as Middle Korean 타 (tha) (Yale: tha) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

駝 (eumhun 낙타 타 (nakta ta))

  1. hanja form? of 타 (“camel”)

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

駝: Hán Nôm readings: đà

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