鼉
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See also: 鼍
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Translingual
Han character
鼉 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+12, 25 strokes, cangjie input 口口田一山 (RRWMU), four-corner 66717, composition ⿳㽞一黽)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1525, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48306
- Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4771, character 4
- Unihan data for U+9F09
Chinese
| trad. | 鼉 | |
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| simp. | 鼍 | |
| alternative forms | 𪛄 鱓 𪓽 𪓸 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鼉 | |||
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| Shang | Spring and Autumn | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| 嚲 | *taːlʔ |
| 癉 | *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn |
| 奲 | *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ |
| 驒 | *daːl, *daːn, *teːn |
| 鼉 | *daːl |
| 磾 | *teːl |
| 鷤 | *deːl, *deːls, *daːn |
| 觶 | *tjal, *tjals |
| 單 | *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans |
| 鄲 | *taːn |
| 殫 | *taːn |
| 簞 | *taːn |
| 匰 | *taːn |
| 襌 | *taːn |
| 彈 | *daːn, *daːns |
| 貚 | *daːn, *deːn |
| 撣 | *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ |
| 潬 | *daːnʔ |
| 僤 | *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan |
| 憚 | *daːns |
| 樿 | *tjanʔ |
| 燀 | *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ |
| 戰 | *tjans |
| 闡 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 繟 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 幝 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 嘽 | *tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ |
| 灛 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 蟬 | *djan |
| 禪 | *djan, *djans |
| 嬋 | *djan |
| 墠 | *djanʔ |
| 鱓 | *djanʔ |
| 蕇 | *teːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːl) : phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans) + semantic 黽 (“toad”)
Etymology
Löffler (1966) tentatively relates this to Mru tam (“alligator”) yet the finals do not agree.
Also reminiscent of Santali (tajan, “broad-headed alligator”) (Schuessler, 2007)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tuó
- Wade–Giles: tʻo2
- Yale: twó
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: two
- Palladius: то (to)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: to4
- Yale: tòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: to4
- Guangdong Romanization: to4
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: da
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ˤar/
- (Zhengzhang): /*daːl/
Definitions
鼉
- Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
- 荊有雲夢，犀兕麋鹿滿之，江漢之魚鱉黿鼉為天下富。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Mozi, c. 4th century BCE
- Jīng yǒu yúnmèng, xī sì mílù mǎn zhī, jiāng hàn zhī yú biē yuán tuó wèi tiānxià fù.
- Jing possesses Yunmeng, full of rhinoceroses, buffaloes, and elaphures; the Jiang's and Han's fish, soft-shelled turtles and alligators are the most abundant under heaven.
荆有云梦，犀兕麋鹿满之，江汉之鱼鳖鼋鼍为天下富。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Synonyms
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鼉
- Alligator
Readings
Korean
Hanja
鼉 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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