屠

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

← 屟
[U+5C5F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

屡 →
[U+5C61]

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 Neipu)
  - 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/
Bernhard 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

大屠殺 / 大屠杀 (dàtúshā)
屠伯
屠刀 (túdāo)
屠城 (túchéng)
屠場 / 屠场
屠夫 (túfū)
屠妖節 / 屠妖节 (Túyāojié)
屠宰 (túzǎi)
屠家 (tújiā)
屠宰場 / 屠宰场 (túzǎichǎng)
屠宰稅 / 屠宰税
屠戮 (túlù)
屠戶 / 屠户 (túhù)
屠殺 / 屠杀 (túshā)
屠毒筆墨 / 屠毒笔墨
屠沽 (túgū)
屠沽兒 / 屠沽儿
屠沽子
屠滅 / 屠灭
屠燒 / 屠烧
屠牛朝歌
屠狗
屠狗之輩 / 屠狗之辈
屠蘇 / 屠苏
屠蘇酒 / 屠苏酒
屠販 / 屠贩
屠門大嚼 / 屠门大嚼
屠龍 / 屠龙
屠龍之技 / 屠龙之技
山林屠販 / 山林屠贩
放下屠刀 (fàngxiàtúdāo)
斷屠 / 断屠
浮屠 (Fútú)
狗屠
狗屠角牴 / 狗屠角抵
申屠 (Shēntú)
禁屠
非熊賣屠 / 非熊卖屠

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/
Bernhard 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

屠牛(とぎゅう) (togyū)
屠殺(とさつ) (tosatsu)
屠獣(とじゅう) (tojū)
屠所(としょ) (tosho)
屠所(としょ)の羊(ひつじ) (toshonohitsuji)
屠場(とじょう) (tojō)
屠蘇(とそ) (toso)
屠蘇機嫌(とそきげん) (tosokigen)
屠蘇酒(とそしゅ) (tososhu)
屠蘇散(とそさん) (tososan)
屠蘇袋(とそぶくろ) (tosobukuro)
屠腹(とふく) (tofuku)
浮屠(ふと) (futo)
屠(ほふ)る (hofuru)

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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