滔

滔	U+6ED4, 滔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ED4

← 滓
[U+6ED3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

滕 →
[U+6ED5]

Translingual

Han character

滔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹難 (EBHX), four-corner 3217₇, composition ⿰氵舀)

Derived characters

𨭡, 𬀝

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 643, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18035
Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1702, character 8
Unihan data for U+6ED4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		滔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (舀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
滔	*l̥ʰuː
韜	*l̥ʰuː
縚	*l̥ʰuː
謟	*l̥ʰuː
慆	*l̥ʰuː
幍	*l̥ʰuː
槄	l̥ʰuː, l̥ʰuːʔ
搯	*l̥ʰuː
瑫	*l̥ʰuː
稻	*l'uːʔ
蹈	*l'uːs
舀	lowʔ, lu, *lo

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thô

(Hailu, HRS): to^ˋ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tho͘ / tho

(Teochew, Peng'im): tao¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹thau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tao
  - Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
  - Yale: tāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
  - Palladius: тао (tao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tou¹
  - Yale: tōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thô
  - Hakka Romanization System: to^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: to¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰo²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: to^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰo⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho͘
  - Tâi-lô: thoo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
  - Tâi-lô: tho
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toy
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tao¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thau
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹thau
  - MiniDict: thau^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹thau
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: thaw

Rime
Character	滔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	土刀切
Baxter	thaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤu/

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰuː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁu/
English	rushing water
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	滔
Reading #	1/1
No.	14731
Phonetic component	舀
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰuː/

Definitions

滔

Compounds

掃地滔天 / 扫地滔天
滔天 (tāotiān)
滔天之罪
滔天大禍 / 滔天大祸
滔天大罪 (tāotiāndàzuì)
滔德
滔滔 (tāotāo)
滔滔不斷 / 滔滔不断
滔滔不盡 / 滔滔不尽
滔滔不竭
滔滔不絕 / 滔滔不绝 (tāotāobùjué)
滔滔而至
滔滔雄辯 / 滔滔雄辩
滔蕩 / 滔荡
滔風 / 滔风
白浪滔滔
禍亂滔天 / 祸乱滔天
罪惡滔天 / 罪恶滔天
雄辯滔滔 / 雄辩滔滔 (xióngbiàntāotāo)

Japanese

Kanji

滔

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 㴞)

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Readings

Go-on: とう (tō)
Kan-on: とう (tō)
Kun: はびこる (habikoru, 滔る)

Korean

Hanja

滔 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

滔: Hán Nôm readings: thao, thào

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