See also: and
U+8C46, 豆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C46

[U+8C45]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C47]
U+2F96, ⾖
KANGXI RADICAL BEAN

[U+2F95]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F97]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 151, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿 (MRT), four-corner 10108, composition 𠮛)

  1. Kangxi radical #151, .

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1191, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1654, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3565, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C46

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms “bean”
 
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Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       

Pictogram (象形) – some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese (shū).

Etymology edit

Derived from (OC *doː), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *du (head) (STEDT).

"Soybean > bean" is possibly the same word as "round vessel" (Unger, 1984)

Pronunciation edit


Note: dòur - bean-related senses.
Note:
  • dau6 - used in compounds;
  • dau6-2 - used as a standalone noun.
  • Gan
  • Hakka
  • Jin
  • Northern Min
  • Eastern Min
  • Southern Min
  • Note:
    • tāu - vernacular;
    • tiō/tō͘ - literary.
    Note:
    • dao7 - “bean”;
    • dou6 - “food container”.
  • Wu
  • Xiang

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    Mandarin Beijing /tou⁵¹/
    Harbin /tou⁵³/
    Tianjin /tou⁵³/
    Jinan /tou²¹/
    Qingdao /tou⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /tou³¹²/
    Xi'an /tou⁴⁴/
    Xining /tɯ²¹³/
    Yinchuan /təu¹³/
    Lanzhou /tou¹³/
    Ürümqi /tɤu²¹³/
    Wuhan /təu³⁵/
    Chengdu /təu¹³/
    Guiyang /təu²¹³/
    Kunming /təu²¹²/
    Nanjing /təɯ⁴⁴/
    Hefei /tɯ⁵³/
    Jin Taiyuan /təu⁴⁵/
    Pingyao /təu³⁵/
    Hohhot /təu⁵⁵/
    Wu Shanghai /dɤ²³/
    Suzhou /dɤ³¹/
    Hangzhou /dei¹³/
    Wenzhou /dɤu²²/
    Hui Shexian /tʰiu²²/
    Tunxi /tʰiu¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /təu⁵⁵/
    /təu¹¹/
    Xiangtan /dəɯ²¹/
    Gan Nanchang /tʰɛu²¹/
    Hakka Meixian /tʰeu⁵³/
    Taoyuan /tʰeu⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /tɐu²²/
    Nanning /tɐu²²/
    Hong Kong /tɐu²²/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tɔ²²/
    /tau²²/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑu²⁴²/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /te⁴⁴/
    Shantou (Teochew) /tau³¹/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdau²³/

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (7)
    Final () (137)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () I
    Fanqie
    Baxter duwH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /dəuH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /dəuH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /dəuH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /dəwH/
    Li
    Rong
    /duH/
    Wang
    Li
    /dəuH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /dʱə̯uH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    dòu
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    dau6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    dòu dòu
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ duwH › ‹ duwH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*[N.t]ˁo-s/ /*[d]ˁok-s/
    English bean vessel with a neck

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 2466
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*doːs/

    Definitions edit

    1. pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea
      绿  ―  dòu  ―  mung bean
        ―  cándòu  ―  fava bean
        ―  wāndòu  ―  pea
    2. bean-shaped object
      咖啡  ―  kāfēidòu  ―  coffee bean
    3. (historical) stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice

    Compounds edit

    References edit

    Japanese edit

     
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    Kanji edit

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. bean, legume

    Readings edit

    Compounds edit

    Etymology edit

    Kanji in this term
    まめ
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mame2/mame/

    From Old Japanese, in turn from Proto-Japonic *mamay.

    Pronunciation edit

    Noun edit

    (まめ) (mame

    1. the pulses
    2. a bean
    3. a pea
    4. a soybean

    Idioms edit

    References edit

    1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997) 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

    Korean edit

    Etymology edit

    From Middle Chinese (MC duwH).

    Historical readings

    Pronunciation edit

    Hanja edit

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    (eumhun (kong du))

    1. Hanja form? of (bean).

    Compounds edit

    References edit

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

    Vietnamese edit

    Han character edit

    : Hán Nôm readings: đậu[1], dấu[2]

    1. chữ Hán form of đậu (bean).

    Derived terms edit

    References edit

    Zhuang edit

    Noun edit

    1. Sawndip form of daeuh (seaweed, algae)

    Adjective edit

    1. Sawndip form of daeuh (green (as seaweed or algae))