讀
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Translingual
Traditional | 讀 |
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Shinjitai | 読 |
Simplified | 读 |
Han character
讀 (radical 149, 言+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜口土田金 (YRGWC), four-corner 04686, composition ⿰言賣(GHTV) or ⿰言𧶠(KJ))
References
- KangXi: page 1185, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36088
- Dae Jaweon: page 1649, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4029, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8B80
Chinese
trad. | 讀 | |
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simp. | 读 | |
variant forms | 逗 Etymology 2 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 讀 | |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Characters in the same phonetic series (𧶠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
竇 | *l'oːɡs |
續 | *ljoɡs, *ljoɡ |
覿 | *l'juːɡ |
黷 | *l'oːɡ |
讟 | *l'oːɡ |
殰 | *l'oːɡ |
讀 | *l'oːɡ |
櫝 | *l'oːɡ |
牘 | *l'oːɡ |
儥 | *l'oːɡ |
贕 | *l'oːɡ |
皾 | *l'oːɡ |
瓄 | *l'oːɡ |
瀆 | *l'oːɡ |
豄 | *l'oːɡ |
韇 | *l'oːɡ |
嬻 | *l'oːɡ |
犢 | *l'oːɡ |
匵 | *l'oːɡ |
藚 | *ljoɡ |
襩 | *ɦljoɡ |
贖 | *ɦljoɡ |
𧶠 | *luɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic 言 (“to say”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).
Etymology 1
“To say aloud, to tell” (Shijing) > “to recite” > “to read”.
Cognate with Tibetan ཀློག (klog, “to read; to recite”). Starostin sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lok (“to recite; to give notice”) for this, and also includes Burmese လျှောက် (hlyauk, “to tell; to ask; to petition; word-for-word translation; indiscriminately”) and Mizo thlûk (“accent, tone, intonation”). Related to 讟 (OC *l'oːɡ, “resentment, slander < to grumble; complaint”).
Sagart (1999) argues that “read” cannot be the primary meaning, since existence of the concept “to read” before the invention of writing is questionable. There is likely no writing at the time of the split between Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages, therefore the Tibetan word may represent a borrowing from Chinese.
Pronunciation
Definitions
讀
Compounds
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Etymology 2
A late attested reading. Starostin thinks it is from the *-s pronunciation of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
Definitions
讀
Further reading
- “Entry #13262”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.