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English definition knife; old coin; measure
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system dao1
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) dāo(284)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *dɑu
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system dou1
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system dou1
Japanese (Kana) トウ チョウ かたな
Japanese (Hepburn) katana
Sino-Japanese tou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system to
Hangul 도:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ đao
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 刀刂 + 0
Unicode total stroke count 2
Cangjie SH
Four corner code 1722.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 319, character 12
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> has a radical break beginning at this character's position radical
volume 1, page 319, character 12
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 135, position 24
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 304, position 4
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1131a
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 173, row 4, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 156, character 45
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 55, character 10
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 219A
page 500, position 7
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 1353
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 6124
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 566
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 4195
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3136
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0324
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0665
PRC telegraph code 0430
Taiwan telegraph code 0430
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 20992 / 5200


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