滔滔

Chinese

overflow; torrent-dash overflow; torrent-dash
simp. and trad.
(滔滔)
滔 滔

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 滔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土刀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰaw/
Li
Rong
/tʰɑu/
Wang
Li
/tʰɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tou1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 滔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ thaw ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˁu/
English rushing water

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 滔
Reading # 1/1
No. 14731
Phonetic
component
舀
Rime
group
幽
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
饕
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰuː/

Adjective

滔滔

  1. (of water) torrential; surging
  2. (of talking) incessant
  3. (literary) grand; magnificent

Derived terms

  • 滔滔不竭
  • 滔滔而至
  • 白浪滔滔
  • 滔滔不斷/滔滔不断

Japanese

Kanji in this term
滔 滔
とう
Hyōgaiji
とう
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
滔々

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) とーとー [tòótóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [to̞ːto̞ː]

Adjective

滔(とう)滔(とう) • (tōtō) ←たうたう (tautau)? †-tari (adnominal 滔(とう)滔(とう)たる (tōtō taru), adverbial 滔(とう)滔(とう)と (tōtō to) or 滔(とう)滔(とう)として (tōtō to shite))

  1. torrential (of flowing water)
  2. voluble (of speech)
  3. flowing strongly in one direction (of a matter of the times)

Inflection

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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