投
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Translingual
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Han character
投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 57047, composition ⿰扌殳)
Derived characters
- 𠲴, 𫽌, 𫽟, 𡷠, 𥦆, 𭠚
References
- KangXi: page 421, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
- Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6295
Chinese
simp. and trad. | 投 |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 投 | |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (殳) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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吺 | *toː |
祋 | *toːd, *toːds |
投 | *doː |
骰 | *doː, *srɯɡ |
酘 | *doːs |
坄 | *doː, *leɡ |
殳 | *djo |
杸 | *djo |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).
Etymology
Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).
Pronunciation
Definitions
投
- to throw; to fling; to pitch
- 投標槍/投标枪 ― tóu biāoqiāng ― to throw a javelin
- to throw oneself into
- 投井 ― tóujǐng ― to jump into a well (to drown oneself)
- to put in; to drop
- 投票 ― tóupiào ― to cast a ballot
- 投資/投资 ― tóuzī ― to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)
- to fit in with
- 脾氣相投/脾气相投 ― píqì xiàngtóu ― to be alike in temperament
- to send
- 投稿 ― tóugǎo ― to submit a piece of writing
- to cast; to project
- 同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
- Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā. [Pinyin]
- The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.
同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]
- to join; to go to
- 投宿 ― tóusù ― to lodge
- 棄暗投明/弃暗投明 ― qì'àntóumíng ― to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)
- (colloquial) to rinse (clothes) in water
- † Alternative form of 骰 (tóu, “dice; die”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 投
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Japanese
Kanji
投
(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)
- to throw
- to discard
- abandon
Readings
- Go-on: ず (zu)
- Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
- Kun: なげる (nageru, 投げる, Jōyō)
Counter
投 • (-tō)
- (baseball) pitches
Korean
Hanja
投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)
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Vietnamese
Han character
投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầu
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