沱

沱

See also: 沲

沱 U+6CB1, 沱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB1 ← 沰 [U+6CB0] CJK Unified Ideographs 沲 → [U+6CB2]

Translingual

Han character

沱 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水十心 (EJP), four-corner 3311₁, composition ⿰氵它)

References

• KangXi: page 613, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17243
• Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1594, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6CB1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		沱
alternative forms		沲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 沱
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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, OC *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 它 (OC *l̥ʰaːl)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuó (tuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuó
    • Wade–Giles: tʻo²
    • Yale: twó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: two
    • Palladius: то (to)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: to⁴
    • Yale: tòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: to⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: to⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /dɑ/

Rime
Character	沱
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒河切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/da/
Li Rong	/dɑ/
Wang Li	/dɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	to4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuó
Middle Chinese	‹ da ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁaj/
English	flow (v.)
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	沱
Reading #	1/2
No.	12218
Phonetic component	它
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	駝
Old Chinese	/*l'aːl/

Definitions

沱

1. (dialectal) small bay in a river (also used in place names)
2. (～江) Tuojiang; Tuo River
3. ^† tearful; wailing
4. ^† rainy

Compounds

南沱 (Nántuó) 大雨滂沱 (dàyǔpāngtuó) 沱江 沱沱河 (Tuótuó Hé) 沱茶

涕泗滂沱 (tìsìpāngtuó) 涾沱 滂沱 (pāngtuó) 滂沱大雨 (pāngtuódàyǔ)

滹沱河 (Hūtuó Hé) 潭沱 美人沱 (Měiréntuó) 銀杏沱／银杏沱 (Yínxìngtuó)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duò (duo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duò
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duò
    • Wade–Giles: to⁴
    • Yale: dwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoh
    • Palladius: до (do)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /twɔ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /dɑ^X/

Rime
Character	沱
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒可切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daX/
Li Rong	/dɑX/
Wang Li	/dɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	do6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沱
Reading #	2/2
No.	12229
Phonetic component	它
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	爹
Old Chinese	/*l'aːlʔ/

Definitions

沱

1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

淡沱

瀢沱／𬉋沱 (duìduò)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 沱 – see 池 (“moat”). (This character, 沱, is an obsolete form of 池.)

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Japanese

Kanji

沱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だ (da)
• Kan-on: た (ta)

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Korean

Hanja

沱 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沱: Hán Việt readings: đà[1][2]
沱: Nôm readings: đà[1][3], đờ, đừ[3]

1. chữ Hán form of Đà (“the Black/Da River, a river in Vietnam”).
2. chữ Hán form of Đà (“the Tuo River in Sichuan or the river of the same name in Hunan”).

References

1. Nguyễn (2014).
2. Thiều Chửu (1942).
3. Hồ (1976).