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討 (Kangxi radical 149,言+3, 10 strokes,cangjie input卜口木戈 (YRDI),four-corner04600,composition⿰訁寸)
| trad. | 討 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 讨 | |
| Historical forms of the character討 |
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| Liushutong (compiled inMing) |
| Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*tʰuːʔ): abbreviated phonetic 肘(OC*tkuʔ) + semantic 言.
Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 言(“speech”) + 寸(“hand”) – rectify.
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 討 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 他浩切 |
| Baxter | thawX |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tʰawX/ |
| Li Rong | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Wang Li | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /tʰɑuX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tǎo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tou2 |
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 討 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tǎo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ thawX › |
| Old Chinese | /*[t]ʰˁuʔ/ |
| English | examine; denounce |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 討 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12374 |
| Phonetic component | 討 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 討 |
| Old Chinese | /*tʰuːʔ/ |
| Notes | 疑肘聲 |
討
FromMiddle Chinese討 (MC thawX).
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