阿堵

Chinese

		phonetic; (final part.); (interj.) phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people	stop up
simp. and trad. (阿堵)		阿	堵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ādǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄚ ㄉㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ādǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄚ ㄉㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: adǔ
    • Wade–Giles: a¹-tu³
    • Yale: ā-dǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aduu
    • Palladius: аду (adu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀä⁵⁵ tu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: 'a tuX

Rime
Character	阿	堵
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏何切	當古切
Baxter	'a	tuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑ/	/tuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑ/	/tuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑ/	/toX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔa/	/tɔX/
Li Rong	/ʔɑ/	/toX/
Wang Li	/ɑ/	/tuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ/	/tuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ē	dǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	o1	dou2

Pronoun

阿堵

1. (literary, during the Jin–Tang period) this

Derived terms

• 傳神阿堵 / 传神阿堵
• 阿堵物 (ādǔwù)

 

Noun

阿堵

1. (literary, euphemistic) Short for 阿堵物 (ādǔwù, “money”).