吺

吺 U+543A, 吺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-543A ← 吹 [U+5439] CJK Unified Ideographs 吻 → [U+543B]

Translingual

Han character

吺 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹弓水 (RHNE), composition ⿰口殳)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 179, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3374
• Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 593, character 6
• Unihan data for U+543A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		吺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
吺	*toː
祋	*toːd, *toːds
投	*doː
骰	*doː, *srɯɡ
酘	*doːs
坄	*doː, *leɡ
殳	*djo
杸	*djo

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dōu, rú (dou¹, ru²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡ, ㄖㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dou
    • Wade–Giles: tou¹
    • Yale: dōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dou
    • Palladius: доу (dou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /toʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rú
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rú
    • Wade–Giles: ju²
    • Yale: rú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ru
    • Palladius: жу (žu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dau¹
    • Yale: dāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: deo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tuw

Rime
Character	吺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	當侯切
Baxter	tuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/təu/
Pan Wuyun	/təu/
Shao Rongfen	/təu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təw/
Li Rong	/tu/
Wang Li	/təu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	吺
Reading #	1/1
No.	11714
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兠
Old Chinese	/*toː/

Definitions

吺

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References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 76

Japanese

Kanji

吺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)
• Kun: ささやく (sasayaku)

Korean

Hanja

吺 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu)

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