荅

See also: 答

荅 U+8345, 荅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8345 ← 荄 [U+8344] CJK Unified Ideographs 荆 → [U+8346]

Translingual

Han character

荅 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿人一口 (TOMR) or 難廿人一口 (XTOMR), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱艹合)

Derived characters

• 嗒 塔 㜓 㟷 搭 榙 溚 䌋(𦈘) 褡 鎝(𨱏) 鞳 剳 瘩 匒 𢟉 𤠟 𤨑 𥉌 𥔽 𦖿 𦞂 𫋓 𨃚 𨻇 𩏒 𩥠 𩺗 𣯚 𣯈 𨶀(𨸉) 𡈐 𧀟 𬿀 𬢿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1030, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3207, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8345

Chinese

trad.		荅
simp. #		荅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荅
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tkuːb) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb).

Etymology 1

“small bean”

Borrowed from Proto-Hmong-Mien *dəp (“bean”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dá (da²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dá
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dá
    • Wade–Giles: ta²
    • Yale: dá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dar
    • Palladius: да (da)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daap³
    • Yale: daap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: top

Rime
Character	荅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都合切
Baxter	top
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/təp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təp̚/
Li Rong	/tᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/tɒp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	da
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daap3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]ˤ[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tkuːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	荅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dá
Middle Chinese	‹ top ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]ˁ[ə]p/
English	small bean
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	荅
Reading #	1/1
No.	4946
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	答
Old Chinese	/*tkuːb/

Definitions

荅

1. ^† small bean
2. ^† A classifier. (clarification of this definition is needed)

   • 糱麴鹽豉千荅 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     糱曲盐豉千荅 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     nièqū yánchǐ qiān dá [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. ^† thick
4. a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 荅 – see 答 (“to answer; to reply; to repay; to requite; etc.”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, second-round simplified, and variant form of 答).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

荅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とう (tō)^{←とふ (tofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)^{←たふ (tafu, historical)}
• Kun: あずき (azuki, 荅)、こたえる (kotaeru, 荅える)

Korean

Hanja

荅 • (dap) (hangeul 답, revised dap, McCune–Reischauer tap, Yale tap)

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