屠

屠	U+5C60, 屠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C60

屠	U+2F877, 屠 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F877

← 㞁
[U+2F876]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

屮 →
[U+2F878]

Translingual

Han character

屠 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸十大日 (SJKA), four-corner 7726₄, composition ⿸尸者)

Derived characters

𭄎, 𭏴, 潳, 𨼑, 𬄫, 𣦠, 𧬅(𬤜), 䠧
𰅂, 䣝, 鷵(𱊩), 𠪡, 廜, 𤺈

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 303, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7761
Dae Jaweon: page 600, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 976, character 15
Unihan data for U+5C60

Unihan data for U+2F877

Chinese

simp. and trad.		屠

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daː, *da) : semantic 尸 (“body”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tú (tu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tô͘ / tó͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tú
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tú
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu²
  - Yale: tú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twu
  - Palladius: ту (tu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tou⁴
  - Yale: tòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù
  - Hakka Romanization System: tu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘
  - Tâi-lô: tôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doo
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, rare in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó͘
  - Tâi-lô: tóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

tô͘ - literary;
tó͘ - vernacular variant, more common in Quanzhou.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: dou⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: du

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	同都切
Baxter	du
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duo/
Pan Wuyun	/duo/
Shao Rongfen	/do/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɔ/
Li Rong	/do/
Wang Li	/du/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤa/

(Zhengzhang): /*daː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tú
Middle Chinese	‹ du ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁa/
English	butcher (v.)
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	屠
Reading #	1/2
No.	16978
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	徒
Old Chinese	/*daː/

Definitions

屠

to slaughter livestock; to butcher livestock
to massacre; to slaughter
butcher
a surname
屠呦呦 ― Tú Yōuyōu ― Tu Youyou

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chú (chu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chú
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chú
  - Wade–Giles: chʻu²
  - Yale: chú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
  - Palladius: чу (ču)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ceoi⁴
  - Yale: chèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: drjo

Rime
Character	屠
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直魚切
Baxter	drjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡiɔ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyu⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*da/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	屠
Reading #	2/2
No.	16995
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	除
Old Chinese	/*da/

Definitions

屠

Only used in 休屠 (Xiūtú).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01093
“屠”, 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

屠

(Hyōgai kanji)

slaughter
massacre

Readings

Go-on: ど (do)、ず (zu)
Kan-on: と (to)
On: ちょ (cho)
Kun: ほふる (hofuru, 屠る)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

屠 • (do, jeo) (hangeul 도, 저, revised do, jeo, McCune–Reischauer to, chŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屠: Hán Nôm readings: đồ

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