涂 · tú
surname; name of certain rivers
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
surname; name of certain rivers
- Mandarin
- tú
- Cantonese
- tou4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 涂 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 도
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6D82
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 涂
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 余 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 余聲
Line 15591 · ⿰氵余 · 余聲 · source reference 4100180
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
塗
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- drjo · 直魚 反切 · #243
- Middle Chinese
- du · 同都 反切 · #282
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2073 · drjo = 遇開三平魚澄 · du = 遇開一平模定
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tú
- kCantonese
- tou4
- kDefinition
- surname; name of certain rivers
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 85.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5857 U+6D82
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+6D82
- kTGH
- 2013:2075
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tú,chú,yé 31628.120
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tú 1162.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tú 372.060,372.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- tu(116) tú(59)
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 直魚 同都
- Kangxi positions
- 0625.290
- Guangyun positions
- 070.27 082.39
- GSR references
- 0082u
- Cangjie
- EOMD
- Four-corner
- 3819.4