杜

杜 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木土 (DG), four-corner 4491₀, composition ⿰木土)

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• Kangxi Dictionary: page 512, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14477
• Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1157, character 2
• Unihan data for U+675C

杜

1. birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulifolia)
2. to stop; to prevent; to block

   防微杜漸／防微杜渐  ―  fángwēidùjiàn  ―  to nip in the bud

3. to reject
4. (obsolete) to pound; to strike
5. (obsolete, dialectal) astringent
6. (obsolete, dialectal) root
7. Asarum forbesii
8. Pollia japonica
9. name of an ancient pre-Qin state located in present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi
10. a surname

    杜甫  ―  Dù Fǔ  ―  Du Fu (Tang dynasty Chinese poet)

Others:

• → English: Du, Tu, To, Toh

Possibly be a Kra-Dai substrate word; compare Zhuang duz (“classifier for animals”), which is a prefix found in the vocabulary for many animals like duzgip (“centipede”), duzgyau (“spider”) and duzlingz (“monkey”) (Zhao, 1991; Tu, 2018).

杜

1. (Eastern Min, Southern Min) Prefix found in the names of certain animals.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. careless
2. woods; grove
3. Chinese family name "Du"

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: と (to)
• Kun: もり (mori, 杜); ふさぐ (fusagu, 杜ぐ); やまなし (yamanashi, 杜)

• 杜撰(ずさん) (zusan): careless, slipshod, faulty
• 杜松(ねず) (nezu)
• 杜氏(とじ) (toji): chief brewer at a sake brewery
• 杜漏(ずろう) (zurō): careless, negligent
• 杜絶(とぜつ) (tozetsu), 途絶(とぜつ) (tozetsu): stoppage; interruption; cessation; suspension
• 杜若(かきつばた) (kakitsubata)

• 杜撰脱漏(ずさんだつろう) (zusandatsurō): careless (slipshod) and with many omissions
• 杜(もり)の都(みやこ) (mori no miyako): lit. City of Trees. Nickname for Sendai, Japan
• 鎮守(ちんじゅ)の杜(もり) (chinju no mori): grove of the village shrine

• 森(もり) (mori)
• 途(と) (to)

杜(やまなし) • (yamanashi) 

1. Wild Japanese pear or mountain pear

杜(と) • (To) 

1. Du Fu, Chinese poet

杜 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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杜: Hán Việt readings: đỗ (動(động)五(ngũ)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4], đổ[5]
杜: Nôm readings: đỗ[1][2][3][4][5][6], đậu[3][7][4][5][6], đổ[2][3][7], dỏ[4][5][6], đũa[1][3], đỏ[3][7], dỗ[1], đủ[1], giỗ[1], rổ[1], trỗ[1]

1. chữ Hán form of Đỗ (“a surname”).

   杜氏海燕 ― Đỗ Thị Hải Yến