(Translated by https://www.hiragana.jp/)
答 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also:
こたえ U+7B54, 答
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B54

[U+7B53]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7B55]

Translingual

edit
Stroke order
 

Han character

edit

こたえ (Kangxi radical 118, たけ+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input たけじんいちくち (HOMR), four-corner 88601, composition 𥫗ごう)

Derived characters

edit

References

edit
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 883, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26006
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2968, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7B54

Chinese

edit

Glyph origin

edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい形声けいせい, OC *tkuːb) : semantic たけ (bamboo) + phonetic ごう (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb). Originally, it was a variant of , where the semantic component そうこう (grass) was later mistakenly replaced by たけ (bamboo). It expresses the meaning of "to respond."[1]

References

edit
  1. ^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Etymology

edit

Cognate with たい (OC *tuːbs, “to respond”) (Schuessler, 2007), which is the exoactive of こたえ (OC *tkuːb). Compare Tibetan འདེབས ('debs, to cast; to send) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation 1

edit
trad. こたえ
simp. # こたえ
2nd round simp.
alternative forms


𣌭

Note:
  • tah - vernacular;
  • tap - literary (reply, answer).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location こたえ
Mandarin Beijing /ta³⁵/
/ta⁵⁵/ おう
Harbin /ta²⁴/
/ta⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tɑ²¹/ かい
/tɑ⁴⁵/ たい
Jinan /ta²¹³/
Qingdao /ta⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ta²⁴/
Xi'an /ta²¹/
Xining /ta⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ta¹³/
Lanzhou /ta¹³/
Ürümqi /ta²¹³/
Wuhan /ta²¹³/
Chengdu /ta³¹/
Guiyang /ta²¹/
Kunming /ta̠³¹/
Nanjing /tɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /tɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /taʔ²/
Pingyao /tʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /taʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /taʔ⁵/
Suzhou /taʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /tɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /tø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /taʔ²¹/
Tunxi /tɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ta²⁴/
Xiangtan /tɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /taʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tap̚¹/
Taoyuan /tɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tap̚³/
Nanning /tap̚³³/
Hong Kong /tap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tap̚³²/
/taʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ta²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔda⁵⁵/

Rime
Character こたえ
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) はし (5)
Final (いん) ごう (160)
Tone (調しらべ) Checked (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) I
Fanqie ごうきり
Baxter top
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/təp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/təp̚/
Li
Rong
/tᴀp̚/
Wang
Li
/tɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
da
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
daap3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character こたえ
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ top ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t]ˁ[u]p/
English answer

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 こたえ
Reading # 1/1
No. 4944
Phonetic
component
ごう
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
こたえ
Old
Chinese
/*tkuːb/

Definitions

edit

こたえ

  1. to answer; to reply
  2. to repay; to requite

Compounds

edit

Descendants

edit
  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *tɔːpᴰ¹ᴸ

Pronunciation 2

edit
trad. こたえ
simp. # こたえ


  • Dialectal data
Variety Location こたえ
Mandarin Beijing /ta³⁵/
/ta⁵⁵/ おう
Harbin /ta²⁴/
/ta⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tɑ²¹/ かい
/tɑ⁴⁵/ たい
Jinan /ta²¹³/
Qingdao /ta⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ta²⁴/
Xi'an /ta²¹/
Xining /ta⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ta¹³/
Lanzhou /ta¹³/
Ürümqi /ta²¹³/
Wuhan /ta²¹³/
Chengdu /ta³¹/
Guiyang /ta²¹/
Kunming /ta̠³¹/
Nanjing /tɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /tɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /taʔ²/
Pingyao /tʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /taʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /taʔ⁵/
Suzhou /taʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /tɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /tø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /taʔ²¹/
Tunxi /tɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ta²⁴/
Xiangtan /tɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /taʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tap̚¹/
Taoyuan /tɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tap̚³/
Nanning /tap̚³³/
Hong Kong /tap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tap̚³²/
/taʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ta²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔda⁵⁵/

Definitions

edit

こたえ

  1. Used in the compounds below.

Compounds

edit

Japanese

edit

Kanji

edit
こたえ

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. answer

Readings

edit

Noun

edit

こたえ(こたえ) (kotaeこたへ (kotafe)?

  1. Alternative spelling of こた

Korean

edit

Etymology

edit

From Middle Chinese こたえ (MC top). Recorded as Middle Korean (tap) (Yale: tap) in Sinjeung Yuhap (しんぞうるいあい / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

edit

Hanja

edit
Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

こたえ (eumhun 답할 (daphal dap))

  1. hanja form? of (answer)

Compounds

edit

References

edit
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際こくさい退すさけい學會がっかい 大邱たいきゅうけいきた支部しぶ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子でんし字典じてん. [1]

Vietnamese

edit

Han character

edit

こたえ: Hán Nôm readings: đáp, đớp, hóp

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.