阿堵

Chinese

		phonetic; (final part.); (interj.) phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people	stop up
simp. and trad. (阿堵)		阿	堵

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ēdǔ, ādǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄜㄉㄨˇ, ㄚㄉㄨˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ēdǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄜㄉㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: edǔ
  - Wade–Giles: o¹-tu³
  - Yale: ē-dǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eduu
  - Palladius: эду (edu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵⁵ tu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ādǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄚㄉㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: adǔ
  - Wade–Giles: a¹-tu³
  - Yale: ā-dǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aduu
  - Palladius: аду (adu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀä⁵⁵ tu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Middle Chinese: 'a tuX

Rime
Character	阿	堵
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏何切	當古切
Baxter	'a	tuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑ/	/tuo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑ/	/tuo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑ/	/to^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔa/	/tɔ^X/
Li Rong	/ʔɑ/	/to^X/
Wang Li	/ɑ/	/tu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ/	/tuo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ē	dǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	o¹	dou²

Pronoun

阿堵

(literary, during the Jin–Tang period) this

Derived terms

傳神阿堵 / 传神阿堵
阿堵物

Noun

阿堵

(literary, euphemistic) short for 阿堵物 (ēdǔwù, “money”)