# 滔

| 滔 | U+6ED4, &#28372; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ED4 |
| ← 滓 [U+6ED3] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 滕 → [U+6ED5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

滔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹難 (EBHX), four-corner 3217$_7$, composition ⿰氵舀)

#### Derived characters

* 𨭡, 𬀝

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 643, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18035
* Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1702, character 8
* Unihan data for U+6ED4

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 滔 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 韜 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 縚 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 謟 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 慆 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 幍 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 槄 | *l̥ʰuː, *l̥ʰuːʔ |
| 搯 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 瑫 | *l̥ʰuː |
| 稻 | *l'uːʔ |
| 蹈 | *l'uːs |
| 舀 | *lowʔ, *lu, *lo |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tāo (tao$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tou$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): thô
    (Hailu, HRS): to$^ˋ$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tho͘ / tho
    (Teochew, Peng'im): tao$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$thau
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tao
*** Wade–Giles: tʻao$^1$
*** Yale: tāu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
*** Palladius: тао (tao)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tou$^1$
*** Yale: tōu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tou$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tou$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thô
*** Hakka Romanization System: to$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: to$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰo²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: to$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰo⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho͘
*** Tâi-lô: thoo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: tof
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
*** Tâi-lô: tho
*** Phofsit Daibuun: toy
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: tao$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thau
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰau³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$thau
*** MiniDict: thau$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$thau
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰɔ⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: thaw
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 |
| Baxter | thaw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tʰɑu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tʰɑu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tʰɑu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tʰaw/ |
| Li Rong | /tʰɑu/ |
| Wang Li | /tʰɑu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /tʰɑu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tāo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tou$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤu/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰuː/
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/ |

### Definitions

滔
* to flood; to inundate; to overflow
* to surge; to swell
* rushing water; torrent
* (literary) arrogant; prideful

### Compounds

* 掃地滔天 / 扫地滔天
* 滔天 (tāotiān)
* 滔天之罪
* 滔天大禍 / 滔天大祸
* 滔天大罪 (tāotiāndàzuì)
* 滔德
* 滔滔 (tāotāo)
* 滔滔不斷 / 滔滔不断
* 滔滔不盡 / 滔滔不尽
* 滔滔不竭
* 滔滔不絕 / 滔滔不绝 (tāotāobùjué)
* 滔滔而至
* 滔滔雄辯 / 滔滔雄辩
* 滔蕩 / 滔荡
* 滔風 / 滔风
* 白浪滔滔
* 禍亂滔天 / 祸乱滔天
* 罪惡滔天 / 罪恶滔天
* 雄辯滔滔 / 雄辩滔滔 (xióngbiàntāotāo)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 㴞)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: とう (tō)
* Kan-on: とう (tō)
* Kun: はびこる (habikoru, 滔る)

## Korean
### Hanja

滔 (eum 도 (do))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

滔: Hán Nôm readings: thao, thào
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