陶

陶 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中心人山 (NLPOU), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿰阝匋)

• 𭲏, 𬞌, 𩍂, 𡒘

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1354, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41705
• Dae Jaweon: page 1858, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4139, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9676

Historical forms of the character 陶
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : a mound of dirt (阜) + two people (勹) + dirt (土) – "to dig", original character of 掏. The shapes beneath the outermost 勹 were corrupted in bamboo slips, arriving at the modern form 缶 in seal script.

Now a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bl'uː, *luː) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 阝 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 匋 (OC *bl'uː, “pottery”).

陶

1. pottery; ceramics
2. to make pottery
3. to cultivate; to educate; to mould
4. contented; happy
5. a surname

   陶行知  ―  Táo Xíngzhī  ―  Tao Xingzhi (renowned Chinese educator and reformer)

   陶家嶺村／陶家岭村  ―  Táojiālǐng Cūn  ―  Taojialing (a village in Yonglong, Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China)

• → Thai: เตา (dtao)

陶

1. Alternative form of 𨹋

1. Used in 皋陶 (Gāoyáo).

1. Used in 陶陶 (yáoyáo).
2. Alternative form of 窯／窑 (yáo)

陶

1. Only used in 陶陶 (dàodào).

• “陶”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}; よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}; よう (yō)^{←えう (eu, historical)}
• Kun: すえ (sue, 陶)^{←すゑ (swe, 陶, historical)}
• Nanori: よし (yoshi)

• 陶(よう)陶(よう) (yōyō)
• 陶(すえ)器(うつわもの) (sue-utsuwamono)

/tau/ → /tɔː/ → /toː/

From Middle Chinese 陶 (MC daw).

陶(とう) • (tō) ^{←たう (tau)?}

1. pottery, ceramics
2. (by extension) teach, instruct
3. pleasant, indulgent
4. cloudy, foggy

/suwe/ → /sue/

From Old Japanese.

The nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 据える (sueru, “to set, lay”), from the way they are formed and/or crafted by the hands. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

陶(すえ) • (sue) ^{←すゑ (swe)?}

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) earthenware, pottery

• 陶(すえ)物(もの) (suemono)

陶(すえ) • (Sue) ^{←すゑ (Swe)?}

1. a surname

陶 (eumhun 질 그도 도 (jil geudo do))

1. Hanja form^? of 도 (“pottery, ceramics, earthenware”).

陶 (eumhun 화락할 요 (hwarakhal yo))

1. Hanja form^? of 도 (“peaceful, harmonious, happy”).

陶 (eumhun 순임금의 신하 요 (sunimgeumui sinha yo))

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The nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 据う (suu, “to set, lay”), from the way they are formed and/or crafted by the hands. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• 陶器 (suwemono₂)

陶 (suwe) (kana すゑ)

1. earthenware, pottery

• Japanese: 陶 (sue)

陶: Hán Nôm readings: đào

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