掏

See also: 搯

掏 U+638F, 掏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-638F ← 掎 [U+638E] CJK Unified Ideographs 掐 → [U+6390]

Translingual

Han character

掏 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手心人山 (QPOU), four-corner 5702₀, composition ⿰扌匋)

1. take out
2. pull out
3. clean out

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 437, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12251
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1902, character 6
• Unihan data for U+638F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		掏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
掏	*l̥ʰuː, *l'uː
蜪	*l̥ʰuː, *l'uː
陶	*bl'uː, *luː
萄	*l'uː
啕	*l'uː
淘	*l'uː
騊	*l'uː
匋	*bl'uː
祹	*l'uː
綯	*l'uː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l̥ʰuː, *l'uː) : phonetic 匋 (OC *bl'uː) + semantic 扌 (“hand”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ / tou¹

• Gan (Wiktionary): tau²
• Eastern Min (BUC): dò̤
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tho͘ / tho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
    • Yale: tāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tou⁴ / tou¹
    • Yale: tòuh / tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ / tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ / tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/, /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: tau²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dò̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /to⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho͘
    • Tâi-lô: thoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
    • Tâi-lô: tho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toy
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: daw

Rime
Character	掏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒刀切
Baxter	daw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daw/
Li Rong	/dɑu/
Wang Li	/dɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	táo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰuː/, /*l'uː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	掏	掏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12361	12367
Phonetic component	匋	匋
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕	陶
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰuː/	/*l'uː/
Notes	同搯見通俗文

Definitions

掏

1. to take out
2. to fish out (from a bag or pocket)

   把錢包掏出來／把钱包掏出来  ―  bǎ qiánbāo tāo chūlái  ―  to take out one's wallet

3. to dig
4. (Eastern Min) to take

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 拿 (“to take; to hold”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		取
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	拿
	Taiwan	拿
	Malaysia	拿
	Singapore	拿
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	拿
Central Plains Mandarin	Zhengzhou	拿, 搦
	Xi'an	拿
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	拿
	Wuhan	拿
	Guilin	拿
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	拿
	Hefei	拿
Cantonese	Guangzhou	攞, 拎, 搦
	Hong Kong	攞, 拎, 搦
	Macau	拎
	Taishan	𢬿, 討
	Kaiping (Chikan)	討
	Yangjiang	捰, 拎, 摣
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	攞, 拎
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	攞
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	攞
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	攞
	Penang (Guangfu)	攞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	攞
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	搦
	Móng Cái	攞
Gan	Nanchang	拿
Hakka	Meixian	拿
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	拿
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	拿
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	提
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	提
	Sabah (Bao'an)	撿
	Kuching (Hepo)	撿, 拿
	Sungai Tapang, Batu Kawa (Hepo)	搦
Huizhou	Jixi	擔
Jin	Taiyuan	荷, 拿
Northern Min	Jian'ou	拿, 㨮
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	拈, 掏
Southern Min	Xiamen	提
	Quanzhou	提, 掗
	Jinjiang	提, 掗
	Zhangzhou	提
	Dongshan	攑
	Taipei	提, 挈 GT
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	提
	Kaohsiung	提
	Yilan	提
	Changhua (Lukang)	提
	Taichung	提
	Tainan	提
	Hsinchu	提
	Kinmen	提, 捎
	Penghu (Magong)	提
	Penang (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Singapore (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Manila (Hokkien)	提, 掗
	Chaozhou	挈
	Shantou	挈
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	挈
	Jieyang	挈
	Singapore (Teochew)	挈, 攑
	Wenchang	把
	Haikou	把
	Qionghai	把
	Singapore (Hainanese)	挈
Wu	Shanghai	拿
	Suzhou	拿
	Ningbo	馱, 撈, 挈
	Wenzhou	朵, 抯, 揹
Xiang	Changsha	拿
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

• (to dig): 挖 (wā)

Compounds

• 掏出
• 掏問 / 掏问
• 掏心 (tāoxīn)
• 掏摸 (tāomō)
• 掏澄
• 掏空 (tāokōng)
• 掏腰包 (tāo yāobāo)
• 掏錢 / 掏钱 (tāoqián)
• 自掏腰包 (zì tāo yāobāo)

References

• “掏”, 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

掏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kun: えらぶ (erabu, 掏ぶ)、する (suru, 掏る)

Korean

Hanja

掏 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

掏: Hán Nôm readings: đào

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