導

See also: 导

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) : 道みち (“path”) + 寸すん (“hand”) – to lead someone by the hand.

Han character

導しるべ (Kangxi radical 41, 寸すん+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜うらない山木やまき戈ほこ (YUDI), four-corner 3834₃, composition ⿱道みち寸すん)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 296, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7463
• Dae Jaweon: page 586, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 512, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5C0E

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Chinese

trad.		導しるべ
simp.		导

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎo (dao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thô
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tao³
    • Yale: dǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dao
    • Palladius: дао (dao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dou⁶
    • Yale: douh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thô
    • Hakka Romanization System: to^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: to¹
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰo²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thōa
    • Tâi-lô: thuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰua³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰua³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dawH

Rime
Character	導しるべ
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	定じょう (7)
Final (韻いん)	豪ごう (89)
Tone (調しらべ)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I
Fanqie	徒と到いた切きり
Baxter	dawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dawH/
Li Rong	/dɑuH/
Wang Li	/dɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤuʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	導しるべ
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ dawH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁuʔ-s/
English	to lead
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	導しるべ
Reading #	1/1
No.	11670
Phonetic component	首くび
Rime group	幽かそけ
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	導しるべ
Old Chinese	/*duːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 導しるべ

1. to direct, guide, lead, conduct

Compounds

• 指導しどう／指ゆび导 (zhǐdǎo)
• 倡導／倡导 (chàngdǎo)

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Japanese

Kanji

導しるべ

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to direct, guide, lead, conduct

Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kun: みちびく (michibiku), みちびき (michibiki)

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Korean

Hanja

導しるべ • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 導しるべ (đạo)

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