投

投	U+6295, 投 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6295

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌殳)

Derived characters

𠲴, 𫽌, 𫽟, 𡷠, 𥦆, 𭠚

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 421, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
Unihan data for U+6295

Chinese

simp. and trad.		投

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).

Etymology

Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóu (tou²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thèu

(Meixian, Guangdong): têu²
Eastern Min (BUC): dèu / dàu
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tiô / tô͘ / tâu

(Teochew, Peng'im): dao⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶deu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóu
  - Wade–Giles: tʻou²
  - Yale: tóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tour
  - Palladius: тоу (tou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tau⁴
  - Yale: tàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: teu²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: têu²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dèu / dàu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛu⁵³/, /tau⁵³/

Note:

dèu - literary;
dàu - vernacular.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiô
  - Tâi-lô: tiô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diooi
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /tio²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doo
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâu
  - Tâi-lô: tâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daau
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei): /tau²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tau¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tau²³/

Note:

tiô/tô͘ - literary;
tâu - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: dao⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâu
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau⁵⁵/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶deu
  - MiniDict: deu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³deu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /dɤ²³/

Middle Chinese: duw

Rime
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	度侯切
Baxter	duw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəu/
Pan Wuyun	/dəu/
Shao Rongfen	/dəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəw/
Li Rong	/du/
Wang Li	/dəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tau⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤo/

(Zhengzhang): /*doː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tóu
Middle Chinese	‹ duw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁo/
English	throw
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	投
Reading #	1/1
No.	11716
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	頭
Old Chinese	/*doː/

Definitions

投

to throw; to fling; to pitch
投標槍／投标枪 ― tóu biāoqiāng ― to throw a javelin
to throw oneself into
投井 ― tóujǐng ― to jump into a well (to drown oneself)
to put in; to drop
投票 ― tóupiào ― to cast a ballot

投資／投资 ― tóuzī ― to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)
to fit in with
脾氣相投／脾气相投 ― píqì xiàngtóu ― to be alike in temperament
to send
投稿 ― tóugǎo ― to submit a piece of writing
to cast; to project
同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]
Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā. [Pinyin]
The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.
to join; to go to
投宿 ― tóusù ― to lodge

棄暗投明／弃暗投明 ― qì'àntóumíng ― to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)
(colloquial) to rinse (clothes) in water
(Hokkien) to report; to tell on; to snitch; to inform one's superiors; to complain to one's parents or superiors
學生去共老師投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
学生去共老师投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Ha̍k-seng khì kā lāu-su tâu. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
The students reported to the teacher.
^† Alternative form of 骰 (“dice; die”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

投

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Counter

投(とう) • (-tō)

(baseball) pitches

Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầu

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