兜鍪

Chinese

		pocket	iron pot; metal cap
simp. and trad. (兜鍪)		兜	鍪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dōumóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡ ㄇㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau¹ mau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dōumóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡ ㄇㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: doumóu
    • Wade–Giles: tou¹-mou²
    • Yale: dōu-móu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doumou
    • Palladius: доумоу (doumou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯⁵⁵ moʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dau¹ mau⁴
    • Yale: dāu màuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau¹ mau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: deo¹ meo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯⁵⁵ mɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tuw mjuw

Rime
Character	兜	鍪
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	當侯切	莫浮切
Baxter	tuw	mjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/təu/	/mɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/təu/	/miu/
Shao Rongfen	/təu/	/miəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təw/	/muw/
Li Rong	/tu/	/miu/
Wang Li	/təu/	/mĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tə̯u/	/mi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dōu	móu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dau1	mau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toː  mu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	兜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dōu
Middle Chinese	‹ tuw ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁo/
English	helmet, hood
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	兜	鍪
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2449	8818
Phonetic component	兜	矛
Rime group	侯	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	兠	謀
Old Chinese	/*toː/	/*mu/

Noun

兜鍪

1. (archaic) an ancient type of helmet (which resembled a kind of iron cooking pot used at the time)

   • 令三百人皆被甲兜鍪，操劍盾而立，告以軍法，隨鼓進退，左右迴旋，使知其禁。 [MSC, trad.]
     令三百人皆被甲兜鍪，操剑盾而立，告以军法，随鼓进退，左右回旋，使知其禁。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 趙曄 Zhao Ye 《吳越春秋》 Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

     Lìng sānbǎi rén jiē bèi jiǎ dōumóu, cāo jiàn dùn ér lì, gào yǐ jūnfǎ, suí gǔ jìntuì, zuǒyòu huíxuán, shǐ zhī qí jìn. [Pinyin]

     (Sunzi) ordered three hundred ladies to wear armors and helmets, to stand and drill with swords and shields; he instructed them with military rules, to follow the drums to advance and retreat, to turn left and right and to circle, let them know prohibitions.

2. (archaic, figurative) soldier