兜

兜 U+515C, 兜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-515C
← 兛
[U+515B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兝 →
[U+515D]

Translingual

Han character

兜 (radical 10, 儿+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹女竹山 (HVHU), four-corner 77217) .

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 125, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1386
  • Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 273, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+515C

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 兜
variant forms 兠

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 兜
Small seal script

s06217

Transcribed ancient scripts

L33694

L12173

L12174

L12175

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
兜 *toː
篼 *toː

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𠑹 (“cover”) + 皃 (“head”): a helmet.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • tau - vernacular;
  • to͘ - literary.
Rime
Character 兜
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /təu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /təu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /təu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /təw/
Li
Rong		 /tu/
Wang
Li		 /təu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dōu
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2449
Phonetic
component		 兜
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 兠
Old
Chinese		 /*toː/

Definitions

兜

  1. helmet; hood
  2. helmet-shaped
  3. to wrap; to encase
  4. armor
  5. to carry in a wrap
  6. bag; pouch
  7. plastic bag
  8. pocket
  9. to pocket; to keep; to retain; to acquire dishonestly
  10. to reach
  11. to move around; to move in a circle; to canvass; to solicit
  12. to take responsibility for
  13. to relate in detail
  14. to peddle; to hawk
  15. (Min Nan) home
  16. (Min Nan) nearby
  17. (Cantonese) lunchbox
  18. (Cantonese) to save, to assue

Synonyms

Compounds
  • 傴兜／伛兜
  • 兜來兜去／兜来兜去
  • 兜兒／兜儿 (dōur)
  • 兜兜 (dōudōu)
  • 兜兜嘴兒／兜兜嘴儿
  • 兜兜答答
  • 兜兜褲兒／兜兜裤儿
  • 兜剿
  • 兜售 (dōushòu)
  • 兜喜神方
  • 兜嘴
  • 兜圈子 (dōu quānzi)
  • 兜子
  • 兜底
  • 兜底兒／兜底儿
  • 兜得轉／兜得转
  • 兜抄
  • 兜拖
  • 兜捕
  • 兜搭
  • 兜攬／兜揽 (dōulǎn)
  • 兜攬生意／兜揽生意
  • 兜率天 (Dōushuàitiān)
  • 兜率天宮／兜率天宫
  • 兜率宮／兜率宫
  • 兜的
  • 兜答
  • 兜籠／兜笼
  • 兜紗／兜纱
  • 兜羅／兜罗 (dōuluó)
  • 兜翻
  • 兜老底
  • 兜肚 (dōudù)
  • 兜肚兒／兜肚儿
  • 兜胸
  • 兜膝
  • 兜臉／兜脸
  • 兜襠／兜裆
  • 兜轎／兜轿
  • 兜銷／兜销
  • 兜鍪 (dōumóu)
  • 兜頭／兜头
  • 兜頭蓋臉／兜头盖脸
  • 兜風／兜风 (dōufēng)
  • 冤兜
  • 圍兜／围兜 (wéidōu)
  • 帽兜子
  • 慲兜
  • 暖雲兜／暖云兜
  • 橋兜／桥兜 (Qiáodōu)
  • 漏兜
  • 肚兜 (dùdōu)
  • 觀音兜／观音兜
  • 阿兜眼
  • 露兜樹／露兜树

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
兜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings
  • Go-on: つ (tsu); と (to)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō)
  • Kun: かぶと (kabuto, 兜)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
兜
かぶと
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

兜 (hiragana かぶと, rōmaji kabuto)

  1. helmet

Derived terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (투구 두, tugu-): helmet (especially, made of iron)

Synonyms

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

兜 (đâu)

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