屠

屠 U+5C60, 屠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C60 ← 屟 [U+5C5F] CJK Unified Ideographs 屡 → [U+5C61]

屠 U+2F877, 屠 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F877 ← 㞁 [U+2F876] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 屮 → [U+2F878]

Translingual

Han character

屠 (radical 44, 尸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸十大日 (SJKA), four-corner 7726₄, composition ⿸尸者)

1. butcher, slaughter, massacre
2. slaughterer
3. slaughterhouse
4. A surname​.

Derived characters

• 潳 䠧 䣝 鷵 廜

References

• KangXi: page 303, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7761
• Dae Jaweon: page 600, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 976, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5C60

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		屠

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daː, *da): semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tú (tu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tô͘ / tó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tú
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twu
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou⁴
    • Yale: tòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù
    • Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tu²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
    • Tâi-lô: tôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, rare in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dor
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

• tô͘ - literary;
• tó͘ - vernacular variant, more common in Quanzhou.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dou⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /duo/

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	同都切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duo/
Pan Wuyun	/duo/
Shao Rongfen	/do/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɔ/
Li Rong	/do/
Wang Li	/du/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tú
Middle Chinese	‹ du ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁa/
English	butcher (v.)
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	屠
Reading #	1/2
No.	16978
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	徒
Old Chinese	/*daː/

Definitions

屠

1. to slaughter livestock; to butcher livestock
2. to massacre; to slaughter
3. butcher
4. A surname​.

   屠呦呦  ―  Tú Yōuyōu  ―  Tu Youyou

Compounds

• 大屠殺／大屠杀 (dàtúshā)
• 屠伯
• 屠刀 (túdāo)
• 屠城 (túchéng)
• 屠場／屠场
• 屠夫 (túfū)
• 屠宰 (túzǎi)
• 屠宰場／屠宰场 (túzǎichǎng)
• 屠宰稅／屠宰税
• 屠家 (tújiā)
• 屠戮 (túlù)
• 屠戶／屠户 (túhù)
• 屠殺／屠杀 (túshā)

• 屠毒筆墨／屠毒笔墨
• 屠沽 (túgū)
• 屠沽兒／屠沽儿
• 屠沽子
• 屠滅／屠灭
• 屠燒／屠烧
• 屠牛朝歌
• 屠狗
• 屠狗之輩／屠狗之辈
• 屠蘇／屠苏
• 屠蘇酒／屠苏酒
• 屠販／屠贩

• 屠門大嚼／屠门大嚼
• 屠龍／屠龙
• 屠龍之技／屠龙之技
• 山林屠販／山林屠贩
• 放下屠刀 (fàngxiàtúdāo)
• 斷屠／断屠
• 浮屠 (Fútú)
• 狗屠
• 狗屠角牴／狗屠角抵
• 申屠 (Shēntú)
• 禁屠
• 非熊賣屠／非熊卖屠

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chú (chu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceoi⁴
    • Yale: chèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰɵy̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖɨʌ/

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡiɔ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*da/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
No.	16995
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	除
Old Chinese	/*da/

Definitions

屠

1. Only used in 休屠.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01093
• “屠”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

屠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. slaughter
2. massacre

Readings

• Go-on: ど (do); ず (zu)
• Kan-on: と (to)
• On: ちょ (cho)
• Kun: ほふる (hofuru, 屠る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 屠牛(とぎゅう) (togyū)
• 屠殺(とさつ) (tosatsu)
• 屠獣(とじゅう) (tojū)
• 屠所(としょ) (tosho)
• 屠所(としょ)の羊(ひつじ) (toshonohitsuji)
• 屠場(とじょう) (tojō)
• 屠蘇(とそ) (toso)

• 屠蘇機嫌(とそきげん) (tosokigen)
• 屠蘇酒(とそしゅ) (tososhu)
• 屠蘇散(とそさん) (tososan)
• 屠蘇袋(とそぶくろ) (tosobukuro)
• 屠腹(とふく) (tofuku)
• 浮屠(ふと) (futo)
• 屠(ほふ)る (hofuru)

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Korean

Hanja

屠 • (do, jeo) (hangeul 도, 저, revised do, jeo, McCune–Reischauer to, chŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屠: Hán Nôm readings: đồ

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