# 滝

| 滝 | U+6EDD, &#28381; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EDD |
| ← 滜 [U+6EDC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 滞 → [U+6EDE] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 瀧 |
| Shinjitai | 滝 |
| Simplified | 泷 |

### Han character

滝 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜廿山 (EYTU), four-corner 3011$_6$, composition ⿰氵竜)

#### Related characters

* 瀧 (Traditional Chinese and Japanese kyūjitai)

### Further reading

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 643, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18067
* Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1706, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6EDD

## Chinese

* For pronunciation and definitions of 滝 – see 瀧 (“appearance of raining; wet; soaked; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 瀧).

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02335-001

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 滝 |
| Kyūjitai | 瀧 |

### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 瀧)
* waterfall, cascade
* rapids

#### Readings

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC laewng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (lóng):
* Go-on: ろう (rō)
* Kan-on: ろう (rō)
From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC luwng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (lóng):
* Go-on: ろう (rō)
* Kan-on: ろう (rō)
From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC sraewng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (shuāng):
* Go-on: そう (sō)
* Kan-on: そう (sō)
From native Japanese roots:
* Kun: たき (taki, 滝, Jōyō)
* Nanori: らき (raki)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 滝
* たき Grade: S
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spellings
* 瀧 (kyūjitai) 瀑
/taki$_1$/ → /taki/
From Old Japanese.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) たき [tàkí] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ta̠kʲi]

### Noun

滝(たき) • (taki)
* waterfall
** c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 8, poem 1035), text here (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 54)
    滝(たき)の音(おと)は絶(た)えて久(ひさ)しくなりぬれど名(な)こそ流(なが)れてなほ聞(き)こえけれ
       taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere
       The waterfall's sound faded into nothingness a long time ago―but its name has come down still to be heard today.
* (archaic) rapids
** c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3617:, text here
    伊波婆之流(いはばしる)多伎(たき)毛登杼呂尓(もとどろに)鳴(なく)蝉(せみ)乃(の)許恵乎之伎氣婆(こゑをしきけば)京師(みやこ)之於毛保由(しおもほゆ) [Man'yōgana]
    石(いは)走(ばし)る滝(たき)もとどろに鳴(な)く蝉(せみ)の声(こゑ)をし聞(き)けば都(みやこ)し思(おも)ほゆ [Modern spelling]

#### Synonyms

* (waterfall): 瀑(ばく)布(ふ) (bakufu)
* (rapids): 急流(きゅうりゅう) (kyūryū), 滝川(たきがわ) (takigawa)

#### Derived terms

* 滝汗(たきあせ) (takiase, “profuse sweating”)
* 滝口(たきぐち) (takiguchi, “top of a waterfall”)
* 滝壷(たきつぼ) (takitsubo)
* 滝(たき)登(のぼ)り (takinobori)
* 男(お)滝(だき), 雄(お)滝(だき) (odaki)
* 小(お)滝(だき) (odaki, “cascade”)
* 枯滝(かれたき), 枯(か)れ滝(たき) (karetaki)
* 涸滝(かれたき), 涸(か)れ滝(たき) (karetaki)
* 白滝(しらたき) (shirataki)
* 女(め)滝(だき), 雌(め)滝(だき) (medaki)

### Proper noun

滝(たき) • (Taki)
* A placename.
* a surname

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ Steven D. Carter (1991) Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 223

## Korean
### Hanja

滝 (eumhun 젖을 롱 (jeojeul rong), word-initial (South Korea) 젖을 농 (jeojeul nong))
* Alternative form of 瀧

### References

* Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005).

## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* 瀧 (sông)
* 瀧 (rồng)
* 雙 (suông)

### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, sông): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 竜 (long).

### Han character

滝: Nôm readings: sông, lùng, sòng, suồng, trong, rông, rồng, suông, long
* chữ Nôm form of sông (“river”).

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Trần (2004).
* 1 2 Bonet (1899).
* 1 2 3 4 5 Nguyễn (2014).
* 1 2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
* ↑ Hồ (1976).