盜

盜 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水人月廿 (EOBT), four-corner 3710₇, composition ⿱㳄皿)

• 盗

• 𣛯, 𥋕, 𫴣, 𥶎

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 794, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23006
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2564, character 13
• Unihan data for U+76DC

In oracle bone script, Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːws): phonetic 㳄 + 舟 (“boat”) – an overflowing river.^[1] This character is technically a different word than the modern 盜／盗 (dào, “steal”), used interchangeably with 衍 (OC *lanʔ, *lans) in oracle bones, or as a phonetic loan for 羨 (OC *lel, *ljans, *lans), and 延 (OC *lan, *lans) in bronze script.^[2] The component 舟 corrupted into 皿 in Chu script.

盜／盗 (dào, “steal”) on the other hand, is a Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 㳄 (“drooling; craving”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – to covet someone else's possessions → to steal.

盜

1. (transitive) to steal

   盜竊／盗窃  ―  dàoqiè  ―  to steal

   盜案／盗案  ―  dào'àn  ―  theft

   大量財物被盜。／大量财物被盗。  ―  Dàliàng cáiwù bèi dào.  ―  A large amount of property was stolen.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) illegally

   盜掘／盗掘  ―  dàojué  ―  to dig illegally

   盜獵／盗猎  ―  dàoliè  ―  to hunt illegally

   盜伐／盗伐  ―  dàofá  ―  to cut down (trees) illegally

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thief; robber

   大盜／大盗  ―  dàdào  ―  robber that commits large robberies or many robberies in an unrestrained manner

   盜跖／盗跖  ―  Dào Zhí  ―  Robber Zhi (a legendary figure or fictional character)

   海盜／海盗  ―  hǎidào  ―  pirate

   開門揖盜／开门揖盗  ―  kāiményīdào  ―  to introduce bad people and bring disaster upon oneself

• (to steal):

• (thief):

• “盜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02747

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 盗)

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• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kun: ぬすむ (nusumu, 盜む)

From Middle Chinese 盜 (MC dawH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [to̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [도]

Wikisource

盜 (eumhun 도둑 도 (doduk do))

1. hanja form^? of 도 (“thief”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

盜: Hán Nôm readings: đạo

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