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投	U+6295, 投 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6295

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

投Category:Translingual lemmas#手04投 Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#手04投 Category:Translingual symbols#手04投 Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#手04投 Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#手04投 Category:Pages with entries#投 Category:Pages with 5 entries#投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌殳)Category:Han script characters#手04投

Derived characters

𠲴, 𡷠, 𥦆

Additional Derived Characters

𫽌, 𫽟, 𭠚

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 421, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
Unihan data for U+6295

Chinese

simp. and trad.		投

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
吺	*toː
祋	toːd, toːds
投	*doː
骰	doː, srɯɡ
酘	*doːs
坄	doː, leɡ
殳	*djo
杸	*djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doː)Category:Han phono-semantic compounds#手04: semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo)Category:Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#投.

Etymology

Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): tóu (tou²Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters#投)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ

(Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): tóu
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): tau⁴

(Dongguan, Jyutping++): taau⁴

(Taishan, Wiktionary): heu³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thèu / tàu

(Hailu, HRS): teu / dau

(Meixian, Guangdong): têu²
Jin (Wiktionary): tou¹
Northern Min (KCR): dě
Eastern Min (BUC): dàu / dèu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dao² / dieo²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tâu / tiô / tô͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): dao⁵

(Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): dao⁵ / deu⁵
Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): dau⁴
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶deu / ²doe / ²deu / ²de / ²dei
- (Jinhua): ²dieu
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): dou²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóu
  - Wade–Giles: tʻou²
  - Yale: tóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tour
  - Palladius: тоу (tou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Xi'an)
  - Guanzhong Pinyin: tóu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤu²⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tau⁴
  - Yale: tàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹/
- (Dongguan, Guancheng)
  - Jyutping++: taau⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: heu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /heu²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu / tàu
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu^ˇ / dau^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: teu² / dau²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹/, /tau̯¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu / dau
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu⁵⁵/, /tau⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: têu²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu¹¹/

Note: tàu/dau - used in 林投.

Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: tou¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰəu¹¹/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: dě
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /te²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dàu / dèu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau⁵³/, /tɛu⁵³/

Note:

dàu - vernacular;
dèu - literary.

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dao²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dáu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dao²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dieo²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dá̤u
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieu¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dieo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieu²⁴/

Note:

dao2 - vernacular;
dieo2 - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâu
  - Tâi-lô: tâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daau
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei): /tau²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tau¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tau²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiô
  - Tâi-lô: tiô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diooi
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /tio²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doo
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴/

Note:

tâu - vernacular;
tiô/tô͘ - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dao⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tau⁵⁵/
- (Leizhou)
  - Leizhou Pinyin: dao⁵ / deu⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tau²²/, /tɛu²²/

Note:

dao5 - vernacular;
deu5 - literary.

Southern Pinghua
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
  - Jyutping++: dau⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /təu²¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶deu
  - MiniDict: deu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³deu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /dɤ²³/
- (Northern: Jiading)
  - Wugniu: ²doe
  - MiniDict: doe^平
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /dø³¹/
- (Northern: Songjiang, Chongming, Suzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ²deu
  - MiniDict: deu^平
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /dɯ³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /dɵ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /døy²²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /dɤ²³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /dœʏ³¹³/
- (Northern: Kunshan, Jiaxing)
  - Wugniu: ²de
  - MiniDict: de^平
  - Sinological IPA (Kunshan): /dei¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /de³¹/
- (Northern: Hangzhou, Zhoushan)
  - Wugniu: ²dei
  - MiniDict: dei^平
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /dei²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /dai²²/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ²dieu
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /diu³¹³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: dou²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /təu̯¹³/

Middle Chinese: duw

Rime
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	度侯切
Baxter	duw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəu/
Pan Wuyun	/dəu/
Shao Rongfen	/dəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəw/
Li Rong	/du/
Wang Li	/dəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tau⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤo/

(Zhengzhang): /*doː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	投
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tóu
Middle Chinese	‹ duw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁo/
English	throw
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	投
Reading #	1/1
No.	11716
Phonetic component	殳
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	頭
Old Chinese	/*doː/

Definitions

投Category:Chinese lemmas#手04 Category:Chinese hanzi#手04 Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#手04 Category:Pages with entries#投 Category:Pages with 5 entries#投

to throw; to fling; to pitch
投標槍／投标枪 ― tóu biāoqiāng ― to throw a javelinCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to throw oneself into
投井 ― tóujǐng ― to jump into a well (to drown oneself)Category:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to put in; to drop
投票 ― tóupiào ― to cast a ballotCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples

投資／投资 ― tóuzī ― to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)Category:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to fit in with
脾氣相投／脾气相投 ― píqì xiàngtóu ― to be alike in temperamentCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to send
投稿 ― tóugǎo ― to submit a piece of writingCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to cast; to project
同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]
Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā. [Pinyin]
The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.
Category:Mandarin terms with usage examples
to join; to go to
投宿 ― tóusù ― to lodgeCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples

棄暗投明／弃暗投明 ― qì'àntóumíng ― to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)Category:Mandarin terms with usage examples
(colloquial Category:Chinese colloquialisms#手04) to rinse (clothes) in water
(Hokkien Category:Hokkien Chinese#手04) to report; to tell on; to snitch; to inform one's superiors; to complain to one's parents or superiors
學生去共老師投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
学生去共老师投。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Ha̍k-seng khì kā lāu-su tâu. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
The students reported to the teacher.
Category:Hokkien terms with usage examples
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese Category:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#手04) alternative form of 骰 (“dice; die”)

Compounds

Category:Elementary Mandarin#手04

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
投
とう Grade: 3
kan'on

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 投 read as とう#とう Category:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#とう Category:Japanese terms read with kan'on#とう

From Middle Chinese Category:Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese#とう投 (MC duw).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [to̞ː]Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation#とう

Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent#とう

Counter

投(とう) • (-tōCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#投 Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#投) Category:Japanese lemmas#とう Category:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#とう Category:Japanese counters#とう Category:Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji#とう Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#とう Category:Japanese terms spelled with 投#とう Category:Japanese single-kanji terms#とう Category:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#とう Category:Pages with entries#投 Category:Pages with 5 entries#投

(baseball Category:ja:Baseball#とう Category:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#とう) pitches

Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu)Category:Korean lemmas#투 Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#투 Category:Korean hanja#투 Category:Korean terms with redundant script codes#투 Category:Korean entries with incorrect language header#투 Category:Pages with entries#投 Category:Pages with 5 entries#投 (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầuCategory:Vietnamese Han characters with unconfirmed readings#手04 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters

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