禿

See also: 秃

禿 U+79BF, 禿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79BF ← 禾 [U+79BE] CJK Unified Ideographs 秀 → [U+79C0]

Translingual

Han character

禿 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹山 (HDHU), four-corner 2021₇, composition ⿱禾儿)

Derived characters

• 頹
• 𬾒, 𠳶, 𢬳, 𰛯, 𬨩, 𣒇, 𥏐, 𥟉, 䛢, 𧳌, 鋵, 𰨵, 𱶡, 𢽈, 颓, 𥟹, 𨿖, 鵚, 穨, 𥤒, 痜 (may appear as 禿 or 秃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 849, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24910
• Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2588, character 7
• Unihan data for U+79BF

Chinese

trad.		禿
simp.		秃
alternative forms		秂 𣬜 痜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 禿
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
禿	*tʰoːɡ
鵚	*tʰoːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 毛 (“hair”) + 儿 (“person”). 毛 later corrupted into 禾.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tū (tu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tuk¹
• Northern Min (KCR): tŭ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thok / thut / thu̍t / thuh

  (Teochew, Peng'im): têg⁴

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁷thoq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tū
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tu
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu¹
    • Yale: tū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tu
    • Palladius: ту (tu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tuk¹
    • Yale: tūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: tug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊk̚⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thok
    • Tâi-lô: thok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thut
    • Tâi-lô: thut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tud
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tʰut̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: thu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tut
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰut̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰut̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thuh
    • Tâi-lô: thuh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tuq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰuʔ³²/

Note:

• thok - literary;
• thut - vernacular;
• thu̍t - vernacular (“slick and sly”);
• thuh - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: têg⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thek
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰek̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁷thoq
    • MiniDict: thoh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴thoq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰoʔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /tʰoʔ⁴³/
    • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /tʰoʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 禿
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/tʰu⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/tʰu²¹/
	Jinan	/tʰu²¹³/
	Qingdao	/tʰu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰu²⁴/
	Xi'an	/tʰu²¹/
	Xining	/tʰv̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/tʰu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰu¹³/
	Ürümqi	/tʰu⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/tʰəu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/tʰu³¹/
	Guiyang	/tʰu²¹/
	Kunming	/tʰu³¹/
	Nanjing	/tʰuʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/tʰuəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰuəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/tʰuʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/tʰuəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/tʰɤu²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰuʔ²¹/ /tʰeʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/tʰəu⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/tʰəu²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/tʰəɯ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰuʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰut̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰok̚⁵/
	Nanning	/tʰuk̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/tʰuk̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/tʰɔk̚³²/ /tʰut̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tʰuʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tʰu²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/tʰek̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ho³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: thuwk

Rime
Character	禿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他谷切
Baxter	thuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰəwk̚/
Li Rong	/tʰuk̚/
Wang Li	/tʰuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰoːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	禿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tū
Middle Chinese	‹ thuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˁok/
English	bald
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	禿
Reading #	1/1
No.	12484
Phonetic component	禿
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	秃
Old Chinese	/*tʰoːɡ/
Notes	段注以爲秀聲

Definitions

禿

1. (of a person's scalp) having little or no hair; bald
2. (of a mountain, vegetation, etc.) bare; barren; stripped
3. (of a tool) blunt
4. (of a work) unfinished; unsatisfactory
5. (Quanzhou Hokkien) slick and sly, hard to deal with (especially due to age)
6. (Shanghainese) all, everything
   • 1870 , William Jones Boone, 新約全書

     Iung-wæ꜄ kōk-doo꜄, jöⁿ-ping꜄, yoong-yau꜄, tʽōk kwæ pæh la꜄ Noong꜄, dzuk-tau꜄ ꜂ioong-꜂ioong ꜂yöⁿ-꜂yöⁿ la꜄. (original romanization)

     因為國度，權柄，榮耀，禿歸畀垃儂，直到永永遠遠垃。 [Northern Wu, trad.]
     因为国度，权柄，荣耀，秃归畀垃侬，直到永永远远垃。 [Northern Wu, simp.]

     For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever.

Compounds

• 兀兀禿禿 / 兀兀秃秃
• 光禿 / 光秃
• 光禿禿 / 光秃秃 (guāngtūtū)
• 剔抽禿刷 / 剔抽秃刷
• 剔抽禿揣 / 剔抽秃揣
• 剔留禿魯 / 剔留秃鲁
• 斑禿 / 斑秃 (bāntū)
• 白禿風 / 白秃风
• 眼禿刷 / 眼秃刷
• 禿妃之髮 / 秃妃之发
• 禿子 / 秃子 (tūzi)
• 禿子打傘 / 秃子打伞
• 禿寶蓋 / 秃宝盖 (tūbǎogài)
• 禿小子 / 秃小子
• 禿山 / 秃山 (tūshān)
• 禿廝 / 秃厮
• 禿斑 / 秃斑 (tūbān)
• 禿歪剌 / 秃歪剌
• 禿瘡 / 秃疮 (tūchuāng)
• 禿的 / 秃的
• 禿禿裡 / 秃秃里
• 禿科子 / 秃科子
• 禿筆 / 秃笔 (tūbǐ)
• 禿賊 / 秃贼
• 禿頂 / 秃顶 (tūdǐng)
• 禿頭 / 秃头 (tūtóu)
• 禿額 / 秃额
• 禿顱 / 秃颅
• 禿馬 / 秃马
• 禿驢 / 秃驴 (tūlǘ)
• 禿髮 / 秃发 (tūfà)
• 禿髮奮戰 / 秃发奋战
• 禿髮症 / 秃发症
• 禿髮飄飄 / 秃发飘飘
• 禿鶖 / 秃鹙
• 禿鷲 / 秃鹫 (tūjiù)
• 禿鷹 / 秃鹰 (tūyīng)
• 禿鸛 / 秃鹳 (tūguàn)
• 突禿 / 突秃
• 護禿兒 / 护秃儿
• 賊禿 / 贼秃

Japanese

Kanji

禿

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: とく (toku)
• Kan-on: とく (toku)
• Kun: ちびる (chibiru, 禿びる)、かむろ (kamuro, 禿)、はげる (hageru, 禿げる)、はげ (hage, 禿)

Compounds

• 禿筆(ちびふで) (chibifude)
• 禿(ちび)る (chibiru, “wear out”)
• 禿(ち)ぶ (chibu)
• 禿(つ)ぶ (tsubu)
• 禿(は)ぐ (hagu)
• 禿(は)げ上(あが)る (hageagaru)
• 禿(は)げ頭(あたま) (hageatama)
• 禿(は)げ義義(ぎぎ) (hagegigi)
• 禿(は)げ茶瓶(ちゃびん) (hagechabin)
• 禿(は)げちょろ (hagechoro)
• 禿(は)げ山(やま) (hageyama)
• 禿(は)げる (hageru)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
禿
はげ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はげ [háꜜgè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɡe̞]

Noun

禿(はげ) • (hage) 

1. baldness

   ハゲやすい人(ひと)

   hage yasui hito

   a person prone to baldness

2. treelessness

Derived terms

• 赤禿(あかはげ) (akahage)
• つるっ禿(ぱげ) (tsuruppage)
• 禿鸛(はげこう) (hagekō)
• 禿鷹(はげたか) (hagetaka)
• 禿鷲(はげわし) (hagewashi)
• 丸禿(まるは)げ (maruhage)
• 若禿(わかはげ) (wakahage, “baldness in youth”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
禿
かむろ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alteration of kaburo below.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かむろ [kàmúró] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠mɯ̟ɾo̞]

Noun

禿(かむろ) • (kamuro) 

1. bobbed hair
2. baldness
3. young girl attendant of a high-class prostitute

Derived terms

• 切(き)り禿(かむろ) (kirikamuro)
• 羽根(はね)の禿(かむろ) (hanenokamuro)
• 坊主禿(ぼうずかむろ) (bōzukamuro)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
禿
かぶろ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かぶろ [kàbúró] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ɾo̞]

Noun

禿(かぶろ) • (kaburo) 

1. bobbed hair
2. baldness
3. young girl attendant of a high-class prostitute

Derived terms

• 海禿(うみかぶろ) (umikaburo)
• 禿鞘(かぶろざや) (kaburozaya)
• 禿立(かぶろだ)ち (kaburodachi)
• 禿筆(かぶろふで) (kaburofude)
• 禿松(かぶろまつ) (kaburomatsu)
• 引(ひ)っ込(こ)み禿(かぶろ) (hikkomikaburo)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
禿
とく Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 禿 (thuwk).

Affix

禿(とく) • (toku) 

1. bald

Derived terms

• 愚禿(ぐとく) (gutoku)
• 禿瘡(とくそう) (tokusō)
• 禿頭(とくとう) (tokutō, “bald head”)
• 禿髪(とくはつ) (tokuhatsu)
• 禿筆(とくひつ) (tokuhitsu)

Etymology 5

From Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank, who is bald.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɡe̞]

Proper noun

禿(はげ) • (Hage) 

1. (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive) SoftBank (telecommunications company based in Japan)
2. (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive) Masayoshi Son

Related terms

• 茸(きのこ) (kinoko)
• 庭(にわ) (niwa)
• 芋(いも) (imo)

Korean

Hanja

禿 • (dok) (hangeul 독, revised dok, McCune–Reischauer tok, Yale tok)

1. Bald