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U+8C46, 豆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C46

[U+8C45]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C47]
U+2F96, ⾖
KANGXI RADICAL BEAN

[U+2F95]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F97]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 151, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108, composition 𠮛)

  1. Kangxi radical #151, .

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1191, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3565, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C46

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms “bean”
Wikipedia has articles on:

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese (shū).

Etymology[edit]

Derived from (OC *doː), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *du (head) (STEDT).

"Soybean > bean" is possibly the same word as "round vessel" (Unger, 1984)

Pronunciation[edit]


Note: dòur - bean-related senses.
Note:
  • dau6 - used in compounds;
  • dau6-2 - used as a standalone noun.
Note:
  • tāu - vernacular;
  • tiō/tō͘ - literary.
Note:
  • dao7 - “bean”;
  • dou6 - “food container”.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tou⁵¹/
Harbin /tou⁵³/
Tianjin /tou⁵³/
Jinan /tou²¹/
Qingdao /tou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tou³¹²/
Xi'an /tou⁴⁴/
Xining /tɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /təu¹³/
Lanzhou /tou¹³/
Ürümqi /tɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /təu³⁵/
Chengdu /təu¹³/
Guiyang /təu²¹³/
Kunming /təu²¹²/
Nanjing /təɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /tɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /təu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /təu³⁵/
Hohhot /təu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /dɤ²³/
Suzhou /dɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /dei¹³/
Wenzhou /dɤu²²/
Hui Shexian /tʰiu²²/
Tunxi /tʰiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /təu⁵⁵/
/təu¹¹/
Xiangtan /dəɯ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /tʰɛu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰeu⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰeu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tɐu²²/
Nanning /tɐu²²/
Hong Kong /tɐu²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tɔ²²/
/tau²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /te⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tau³¹/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter duwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwH/
Li
Rong
/duH/
Wang
Li
/dəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dau6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dòu dòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ duwH › ‹ duwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[N.t]ˁo-s/ /*[d]ˁok-s/
English bean vessel with a neck

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2466
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːs/

Definitions[edit]

  1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea (Classifier: m;  m)
    绿  ―  dòu  ―  mung bean
      ―  cándòu  ―  fava bean
      ―  wāndòu  ―  pea
  2. bean-shaped object (Classifier: m;  m)
    咖啡  ―  kāfēidòu  ―  coffee bean
  3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

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Kanji[edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. bean, legume

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
まめ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

⟨mame2/mame/

From Old Japanese, in turn from Proto-Japonic *mamay.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(まめ) (mame

  1. the pulses
  2. a bean
  3. a pea
  4. a soybean

Idioms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC duwH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (kong du))

  1. Hanja form? of (bean).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: đậu[1], dấu[2]

  1. chữ Hán form of đậu (bean).

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Zhuang[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. Sawndip form of daeuh (seaweed, algae)

Adjective[edit]

  1. Sawndip form of daeuh (green (as seaweed or algae))