橢

See also: 椭 and 楕

橢	U+6A62, 橢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A62

← 橡
[U+6A61]

CJK Unified Ideographs

橣 →
[U+6A63]

Translingual

Han character

橢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木弓中月 (DNLB), four-corner 4492₇, composition ⿰木隋)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 554, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15565
Dae Jaweon: page 943, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1285, character 7
Unihan data for U+6A62

Chinese

trad.		橢
simp.		椭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鬌	ʔl'oːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːls
橢	*l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷	l̥ʰoːls, l'oːlʔ
毻	l̥ʰoːls, l̥ʰoːds
堶	*l'oːl
憜	*l'oːlʔ
惰	l'oːlʔ, l'oːls
嶞	*l'oːlʔ
髓	*slolʔ
瀡	slolʔ, slols
隨	*ljol
隓	*hlol
隳	*hlol
撱	*lolʔ

Etymology

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”); see 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”) for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuǒ (tuo³)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁵ / to²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thó / thò

(Teochew, Peng'im): to²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo³
  - Yale: twǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuoo
  - Palladius: то (to)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: to⁵ / to²
  - Yale: tóh / tó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: to⁵ / to²
  - Guangdong Romanization: to⁵ / to²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː¹³/, /tʰɔː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó / thò
  - Tâi-lô: thó / thò
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toir, toix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁵³/, /tʰo²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo⁵⁵⁴/, /tʰo⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁵³/, /tʰo²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁵³/, /tʰo¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴¹/, /tʰɤ²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: to²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰo⁵²/

Middle Chinese: thwaX

Rime
Character	橢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他果切
Baxter	thwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwa^X/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑ^X/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰuɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	to²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤojʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰoːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	橢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ thwa^X ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁojʔ/
English	oval
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	橢
Reading #	1/1
No.	5419
Phonetic component	隓
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	妥
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰoːlʔ/

Definitions

橢

^† oval-shaped container
long and narrow; oval-shaped; elliptical
橢圓／椭圆 ― tuǒyuán ― ellipse; oval shape

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): duǒ (duo³)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: duǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: duǒ
  - Wade–Giles: to³
  - Yale: dwǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoo
  - Palladius: до (do)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ²¹⁴/

Definitions

橢

Only used in 科橢／科椭.

References

“橢”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

橢

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: た (ta)
Kan-on: た (ta)
Kan’yō-on: だ (da)
Kun: こばんが (kobanga)

Korean

Hanja

橢 (eum 타 (ta))

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Vietnamese

Han character

橢: Hán Nôm readings: thỏa/thoả, thõa/thoã

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References

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