鐸

See also: 鈬 and 铎

鐸 U+9438, 鐸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9438 ← 鐷 [U+9437] CJK Unified Ideographs 鐹 → [U+9439]

Contents

Translingual

Traditional	鐸
Shinjitai	鈬
Simplified	铎

Han character

鐸 (radical 167, 金+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 金田中十 (CWLJ), four-corner 8614₁, composition ⿰金睪)

Derived characters

• 𮇁

References

• KangXi: page 1324, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40951
• Dae Jaweon: page 1825, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4264, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9438

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Chinese

trad.		鐸
simp.		铎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (睪) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
斁	*ʔl'aːɡs, *l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
籜	*l̥ʰaːɡ
蘀	*l̥ʰaːɡ
鐸	*l'aːɡ
凙	*l'aːɡ
襗	*l'aːɡ, *rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
擇	*rlaːɡ
澤	*rlaːɡ
鸅	*rlaːɡ
蠌	*rlaːɡ
檡	*rlaːɡ, *hljaɡ
釋	*hljaɡ
繹	*laːɡ
睪	*neb, *laːɡ, *kuː
譯	*laːɡ
嶧	*laːɡ
懌	*laːɡ
驛	*laːɡ
醳	*laːɡ
圛	*laːɡ
墿	*laːɡ
燡	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːɡ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duó (duo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dok⁶, nok⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): tog⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): to̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dag⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: duó
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwo
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dok⁶, nok⁶
    • Yale: dohk, nohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dok⁹, nok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dog⁶, nog⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tɔːk̚²/, /nɔːk̚²/

Note: nok6 - variant.

• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tog⁶
    • IPA: /tʰɔk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: to̍k
    • Tâi-lô: to̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dag⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ta̍k
    • IPA ^(key): /tak̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /dɑk̚/▼

Rime
Character	鐸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒落切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dak̚/
Li Rong	/dɑk̚/
Wang Li	/dɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duó

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鐸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	duó
Middle Chinese	‹ dak ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁak/
English	a kind of bell
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	鐸
Reading #	1/1
No.	15125
Phonetic component	睪
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鐸
Old Chinese	/*l'aːɡ/

Definitions

鐸

1. a type of bell
2. A surname​.

Compounds

• 司鐸／司铎 (sīduó)
• 振鐸／振铎
• 晉鐸／晋铎 (jìnduó)
• 木鐸／木铎

• 毀鐘為鐸／毁钟为铎
• 王鐸／王铎
• 瑪莉都鐸／玛莉都铎
• 秉鐸／秉铎

• 鄭振鐸／郑振铎
• 鑊鐸／镬铎
• 風鐸／风铎
• 鬧鑊鐸／闹镬铎

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04356
• “鐸”, 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

鐸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鈬)

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Readings

• Go-on: だく (daku)
• Kan-on: たく (taku)
• Kun: すず (suzu, 鐸)

Noun

鐸 (hiragana ぬりて, rōmaji nurite)

1. a bell used for signaling
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 20)

     鈴鐸 上須受 下達洛反 奴利天

References

• Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

鐸 • (tak) (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune–Reischauer t'ak, Yale thak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鐸 (đạc, đác)

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