妥

妥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月女 (BV), four-corner 2040₄, composition ⿱爫女)

1. satisfactory, appropriate

• 俀 哸 娞 㞂 㟎 𢚶 挼 浽 䧌 桵 㱣 脮 䅑 綏(绥) 𨁡 鋖 鞖 餒(馁) 骽 鮾 𧞥
• 㼏 鵎 荽

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6107
• Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1032, character 2
• Unihan data for U+59A5

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 爪 (“hand”) + 女 (“woman”) – to comfort, to placate. Original form of 綏 (OC *snul).

Compare 孚.

妥

1. appropriate; suitable; proper
2. finished; settled; ready
3. (archaic) to sit still; to sit peacefully
4. (literary) secure; stable; smooth
5. (literary) to drop; to fall; to hang down
6. (Cantonese, transitive, chiefly in the negative) to welcome; to like

   唔妥 [Cantonese]  ―  m⁴ to⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to resent

   • 1998 January 4, 天敵, “五十個唔交功課的理由 [50 reasons to give for not handing in your assignments]”, in hk.entertainment‎^[1] (Usenet):

     16)我唔妥阿sir你所以至唔做,其他阿sir既功課我交齊架 [Cantonese, trad.]
     16)我唔妥阿sir你所以至唔做,其他阿sir既功课我交齐架 [Cantonese, simp.]

     16) ngo⁵ m⁴ to⁵ aa³ sir nei⁵ so² ji⁵ zi³ m⁴ zou⁶, kei⁴ taa¹ aa³ sir ge³ gung¹ fo³ ngo⁵ gaau¹ cai⁴ gaa³ [Jyutping]

     I don't like you, professor, which is why I didn't do it. I did hand in all my other professors' assignments.

7. (Cantonese, intransitive, chiefly in the negative) to be without issue; to not have problems
   • 1999 May 17, [email protected], “Engine ¿O”, in hk.rec.cars‎^[2] (Usenet):

     車內的電子零件好多都好靈敏（唔代表一定準;-p），有少少唔妥都會著 [Cantonese, trad.]
     车内的电子零件好多都好灵敏（唔代表一定准;-p），有少少唔妥都会著 [Cantonese, simp.]

     ce¹ noi⁶ dik¹ din⁶ zi² ling⁴ gin^6-2 hou² do¹ dou¹ hou² ling⁴ man⁵ (m⁴ doi⁶ biu² jat¹ ding⁶ zeon²;-p), jau⁵ siu² siu² m⁴ to⁵ dou¹ wui⁵ zoek⁶ [Jyutping]

     A lot of the electronic components in cars are very sensitive (not to say that they're necessarily accurate ;-p), so (the engine light) can turn on if anything's even a little off.

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• “妥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “妥”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 128.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. gentle

• Go-on: た (ta)
• Kan-on: た (ta)
• Kan’yō-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
• Kun: おだやか (odayaka, 妥やか)
• Nanori: やす (yasu)、やすし (yasushi)

妥 (eum 타 (ta))

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妥: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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