忉

忉 U+5FC9, 忉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FC9 ← 忈 [U+5FC8] CJK Unified Ideographs 忊 → [U+5FCA]

Translingual

Han character

忉 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心尸竹 (PSH) or 難心尸竹 (XPSH), four-corner 9702₀, composition ⿰忄刀)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 375, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10305
• Dae Jaweon: page 702, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2268, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5FC9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		忉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*taːw
舠	*taːw
朷	*taːw, *moːɡ
叨	*tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒	*taːwʔ, *taːws
到	*taːws
菿	*taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀	*deːw
鳭	*rteːw, *teːw
灱	*hreːw
菬	*sdew, *tjewʔ
超	*tʰew
怊	*tʰew, *tʰjew
欩	*tʰew
召	*dews, *djews
昭	*tjew
招	*tjew
鉊	*tjew
沼	*tjewʔ
照	*tjews
詔	*tjews
炤	*tjews
弨	*tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧	*tʰjewʔ
韶	*djew
佋	*djew, *djewʔ
軺	*djew, *lew
玿	*djew
柖	*djew
紹	*djewʔ
袑	*djewʔ
綤	*djewʔ
邵	*djews
劭	*djews
卲	*djews
刁	*teːw
芀	*teːw, *deːw
貂	*teːw
蛁	*teːw
迢	*deːw
苕	*deːw
髫	*deːw
岧	*deːw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dāo (dao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou¹ / tou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dao
    • Wade–Giles: tao¹
    • Yale: dāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dau
    • Palladius: дао (dao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dou¹ / tou¹
    • Yale: dōu / tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou¹ / tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou¹ / tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯⁵⁵/, /tʰou̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: taw

Rime
Character	忉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都勞切
Baxter	taw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/taw/
Li Rong	/tɑu/
Wang Li	/tɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*taːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忉
Reading #	1/1
No.	2109
Phonetic component	刀
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*taːw/

Definitions

忉

1. (literary) sad; grieved; worried; distressed
2. (literary) wordy; garrulous

Compounds

• 忉忉 (dāodāo)
• 忉怛 (dāodá)

Japanese

Kanji

忉

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. grieved
2. distressed in mind

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)
• Kun: うれえる (urēru)

Korean

Hanja

忉 (eum 도 (do))

1. grieved
2. distressed in mind

Vietnamese

Han character

忉: Hán Nôm readings: đau

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