柁

柁 U+67C1, 柁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67C1 ← 柀 [U+67C0] CJK Unified Ideographs 柂 → [U+67C2]

Translingual

Han character

柁 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木十心 (DJP), four-corner 4391₁, composition ⿰木它)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 518, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14599
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1189, character 3
• Unihan data for U+67C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		柁

Glyph origin

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuó, duò (tuo², duo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˊ, ㄉㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁴ / to⁵

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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): /tʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duò
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duò
    • Wade–Giles: to⁴
    • Yale: dwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoh
    • Palladius: до (do)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: to⁴ / to⁵
    • Yale: tòh / tóh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: to⁴ / to⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: to⁴ / to⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː²¹/, /tʰɔː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: daX

Rime
Character	柁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒可切
Baxter	daX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daX/
Li Rong	/dɑX/
Wang Li	/dɑX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	do6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	柁
Reading #	1/1
No.	12226
Phonetic component	它
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	爹
Old Chinese	/*l'aːlʔ/
Notes	郭璞賦作柂

Definitions

柁

1. large tie beams

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 柁 – see 舵 (“rudder; helm; steering”). (This character is a variant form of 舵).

Japanese

Kanji

柁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だ (da)
• Kan-on: た (ta)
• Kun: かじ (kaji, 柁)

References

• “^▲柁”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

柁: Hán Nôm readings: xà

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