㹗

㹗 U+3E57, 㹗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3E57 ← 㹖 [U+3E56] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 㹘 → [U+3E58]

Translingual

Han character

㹗 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土弓戈 (HQGNI), composition ⿰牜壽)

1. cattle and sheep have no children

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 704, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1820, character 25
• Unihan data for U+3E57

Chinese

simp. and trad.		㹗
alternative forms		𤛴

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
    • Yale: tāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tou¹
    • Yale: tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhoj, thaw

Rime
Character	㹗	㹗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	昌來切	土刀切
Baxter	tsyhoj	thaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰʌi/	/tʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰəi/	/tʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰɒi/	/tʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰəj/	/tʰaw/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰᴀi/	/tʰɑu/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰɒi/	/tʰɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰɑ̆i/	/tʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāi	tāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coi1	tou1

Definitions

㹗

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) livestock animals with no offspring