徒步

See also: 徒歩

Chinese

		apprentice; disciple	a step; a pace; walk a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process
simp. and trad. (徒步)		徒	步

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): túbù

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ bou⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-pō

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tu⁵ bou⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: túbù
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: túbù
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu²-pu⁴
    • Yale: tú-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twubuh
    • Palladius: тубу (tubu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou⁴ bou⁶
    • Yale: tòuh bouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ bou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ bou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ pou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-pō
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-pō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: do'poi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² po²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² po⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² po²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tu⁵ bou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thû pōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ pou¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: du buH

Rime
Character	徒	步
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	同都切	薄故切
Baxter	du	buH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duo/	/buoH/
Pan Wuyun	/duo/	/buoH/
Shao Rongfen	/do/	/boH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɔ/	/bɔH/
Li Rong	/do/	/boH/
Wang Li	/du/	/buH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuo/	/bʱuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tú	bù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou4	bou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤa  mə-bˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aː  baːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徒	步
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tú	bù
Middle Chinese	‹ du ›	‹ buH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁa/	/*mə-bˁa-s/
English	go on foot	step
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	徒	步
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12494	1051
Phonetic component	徒	步
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	徒	捕
Old Chinese	/*l'aː/	/*baːs/

Verb

徒步

1. to go on foot; to walk

   徒步旅行  ―  túbù lǚxíng  ―  to travel on foot

2. (colloquial) to hike; to bushwalk

Synonyms

• (to go on foot):

• 串 (literary, or in compounds)
• 履行 (lǚxíng) (literary)
• 步 (bù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 步履 (bùlǚ) (literary)
• 步行 (bùxíng)
• 步趨／步趋 (bùqū)
• 步輦／步辇 (Hokkien)
• 行動／行动 (xíngdòng)
• 行步 (xíngbù) (literary)
• 行走 (xíngzǒu)
• 走動／走动 (zǒudòng)
• 走路 (zǒulù)
• 走道 (zǒudào)

 

Derived terms

• 徒步區／徒步区
• 徒步旅行
• 徒步當車／徒步当车
• 徒步鞋

 

Noun

徒步

1. (literary, figurative) common people
2. (literary) infantry

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (徒步):

• → Japanese: 徒歩(とほ) (toho)
• → Korean: 도보(徒步) (dobo)
• → Vietnamese: đồ bộ (徒步)