都

See also dou

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Note that there are two Unicode z-variants, with code points U+90FD and U+FA26 (this last one, however, is a compatibility variant and should be avoided).

Phonosemantic interpretation

Old Chinese Initial /*t-/ lends semantic value Straight. Phono-semantic indicator 者 (pile) + 邑 village/settlement → inhabitants (likened to a pile) of a metropolis or capital. Other present-day meanings are via association and extension. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⻏ (“town, city”) + phonetic 者 – a large city.

Han character

都 (radical 163 邑+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十日弓中 (JANL), four-corner 4762₇, composition ⿰者⻏)

1. metropolis, capital
2. all, the whole
3. elegant, refined

References

• KangXi: page 1274, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39497
• Dae Jaweon: page 1773, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3776, character 7
• Unihan data for U+90FD
• Unihan data for U+FA26

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Cantonese

Hanzi

都 (Yale dou1)

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Japanese

Kanji

都 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: と (to), つ (tsu), ちょ (cho)
• Kun: みやこ (miyako), すべて (subete)

Noun

都 (hiragana と, romaji to)

1. the prefecture of Tokyo
   • 東京都

     とうきょうと

     Tōkyō-to

     Tokyo; the metropolis of Tokyo

   • 都庁

     とちょう

     Tochō

     the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office

Compounds

都市 (とし, toshi) 首都 (しゅと, shuto) 首都高 (しゅとこう, shutokō) 東京都 (とうきょうと, tōkyōto) 都電 (とでん, toden) 京都 (きょうと, kyōto, “Kyoto”) 都合 (つごう, tsugō, “circumstances”)

都会 (とかい, tokai) 都銀 (とぎん, togin) 全都 (ぜんと, zento) 都議 (とぎ, togi) 政令指定都市 (せいれいしていとし, seireishiteitoshi)

都道府県 (とどうふけん, todōhuken) 不都合 (ふつごう, hutsugō) 都政 (とせい, tosei) 古都 (こと, koto) 都心 (としん, toshin)

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Korean

Hanja

都 (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune-Reischauer to, Yale to)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

都 (pinyin dū (du1), dōu (dou1), Wade-Giles tu¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

都 (đô, đo, đu, đua, đủ)