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, 溚, 榙, 褡, 䌋(𦈘), 鎝(𨱏), 鞳, 剳, 匒, 瘩

Additional Derived Characters

• 𬿀, 𢟉, 𤠟, 𨻇, 𣯚, 𤨑, 𦞂, 𥉌, 𥔽, 𰫇, 𦖿, 𫋓, 𬢿, 𲃑, 𨃚, 𩏒, 𩥠, 𩺗, 𣯈, 𰋱, 𨶀(𨸉), 𡈐, 𣩾, 𩁮

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

	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

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

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

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

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/

• 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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]ˤ[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tkuːb/

Definitions

荅

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) small bean
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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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