待考

Chinese

		wait; treat; deal with wait; treat; deal with; need; about; intending to do something; stay; delay	to check; to verify; to test to check; to verify; to test; to examine
trad. (待考)		待	考
simp. #(待考)		待	考

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàikǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄞˋ ㄎㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): doi⁶ haau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàikǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ ㄎㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàikǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tai⁴-kʻao³
    • Yale: dài-kǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daykao
    • Palladius: дайкао (dajkao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taɪ̯⁵¹ kʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: doi⁶ haau²
    • Yale: doih háau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doi⁶ haau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: doi⁶ hao²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔːi̯²² haːu̯³⁵/

Verb

待考

1. (literary) to remain to be verified or examined

Further reading

• Victor Mair (2022 March 19) “The Origin(s) of Writing”, in Language Log‎^[1], retrieved 2022-03-19: “Does it represent language? As Chinese scholars are fond of saying when stumped by a philological problem, dàikǎo 待考 ("awaiting verification").”