妥

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

妥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月女 (BV), four-corner 2040₄, composition ⿱爫女)

satisfactory, appropriate

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 257, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6107
Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 2
Unihan data for U+59A5

ChineseEdit

trad.		妥
simp. ^#		妥

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 妥
Shang	Western Zhou	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (妥) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
妥	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
鵎	*n̥ʰoːlʔ
挼	noːl, snuːl
骽	*n̥ʰuːlʔ
脮	n̥ʰuːlʔ, nuːlʔ
餒	*nuːlʔ
浽	nuːlʔ, snul
娞	*nuːlʔ
鮾	*nuːlʔ
綏	*snul
荽	*snul
鋖	*snɯl
桵	*njul

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuǒ (tuo³)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁵, to²
Min Bei (KCR): tǒ̤
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): thó͘ / thó / thò

(Teochew, Peng'im): to²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo³
  - Yale: twǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuoo
  - Palladius: то (to)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰwɔ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: to⁵, to²
  - Yale: tóh, tó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: to⁵, to²
  - Guangdong Romanization: to⁵, to²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː¹³/, /tʰɔː³⁵/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tǒ̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘
  - Tâi-lô: thóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tor
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó
  - Tâi-lô: thó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toir
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thò
  - Tâi-lô: thò
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toix
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰo¹¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ²¹/

Note:

thó͘/thó - literary;
thò - vernacular (俗).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: to²
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thó
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰo⁵²/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 妥
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰuo²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/tʰuo²¹³/
	Tianjin	/tʰuo¹³/
	Jinan	/tʰuə⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/tʰuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰuo⁵³/
	Xi'an	/tʰuo⁵³/
	Xining	/tʰu⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/tʰuə⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰuə⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/tʰuɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/tʰuo⁴²/
	Chengdu	/tʰo⁵³/
	Guiyang	/tʰo⁴²/
	Kunming	/tʰo⁵³/
	Nanjing	/tʰo²¹²/
	Hefei	/tʰʊ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰuɤ⁵³/
	Pingyao	/tʰuə⁵³/
	Hohhot	/tʰuɤ⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/tʰu³⁵/
	Suzhou	/tʰəu⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/tʰo⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/tʰɤu³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰo³⁵/
Hui	Tunxi	/tʰo³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/tʰo⁴¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/tʰo⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰo²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰo³¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/tʰo¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰɔ²³/
	Nanning	/tʰɔ³⁵/ /tʰɔ²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/tʰɔ¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/to⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/tʰo³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/tʰɔ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tʰo⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ho³¹/

Middle Chinese: /tʰuɑ^X/

Rime
Character	妥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwa^X/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑ^X/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰuɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	to²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ˤojʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰoːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	妥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ thwa^X ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥ˁojʔ/
English	at ease
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	妥
Reading #	1/1
No.	12585
Phonetic component	妥
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	妥
Old Chinese	/*n̥ʰoːlʔ/
Notes	金文通蕤賓之蕤

DefinitionsEdit

妥

appropriate; suitable
finished; settled
(Cantonese, transitive, chiefly in the negative) to welcome; to like
唔妥 [Cantonese] ― m⁴ to⁵ [Jyutping] ― to resent

CompoundsEdit

不妥 (bùtuǒ)
停妥
妥切
妥善 (tuǒshàn)
妥帖 (tuǒtiē)
妥洽
妥靠
安妥 (āntuǒ)
平妥
挺妥

妥實／妥实
妥當／妥当 (tuǒdang)
妥當人／妥当人
妥貼／妥贴
威妥瑪式／威妥玛式
擬妥／拟妥
穩妥／稳妥 (wěntuǒ)
談妥／谈妥 (tántuǒ)
辦妥／办妥 (bàntuǒ)

ReferencesEdit

“妥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai	妥
Kyūjitai ^[1]	妥󠄁 妥+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	妥󠄃 妥+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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KanjiEdit

妥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

gentle

ReadingsEdit

Go-on: た (ta)
Kan-on: た (ta)
Kan’yō-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
Kun: おだやか (odayaka, 妥やか)
Nanori: やす (yasu); やすし (yasushi)

ReferencesEdit

^ 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 621 (paper), page 360 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

妥 (eum 타 (ta))

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

妥: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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[1] 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 621 (paper), page 360 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)

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