投

投 U+6295, 投
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6295
← 抔
[U+6294] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 抖 →
[U+6296]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

投 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹弓水 (QHNE), four-corner 57047, composition ⿰扌殳)

Derived characters
  • 𠲴, 𫽌, 𫽟, 𡷠, 𥦆, 𭠚

References
  • KangXi: page 421, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1842, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6295

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 投

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 投
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (殳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
吺 *toː
祋 *toːd, *toːds
投 *doː
骰 *doː, *srɯɡ
酘 *doːs
坄 *doː, *leɡ
殳 *djo
杸 *djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 殳 (OC *djo).

Etymology

Compare Tibetan འདོར་བ ('dor ba, “to throw away; to eject; to reject”), Tibetan གཏོར་བ (gtor ba, “to strew; to scatter”) (Unger, 1986).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • dèu - literary;
  • dàu - vernacular.
Note:
  • tiô/tô͘ - literary;
  • tâu - vernacular.
Rime
Character 投
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 度侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dəu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəw/
Li
Rong		 /du/
Wang
Li		 /dəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 tau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 投
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˁo/
English throw

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 投
Reading # 1/1
No. 11716
Phonetic
component		 殳
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 頭
Old
Chinese		 /*doː/

Definitions

投

  1. to throw; to fling; to pitch
    投標槍／投标枪  ―  tóu biāoqiāng  ―  to throw a javelin
  2. to throw oneself into
    投井  ―  tóujǐng  ―  to jump into a well (to drown oneself)
  3. to put in; to drop
    投票  ―  tóupiào  ―  to cast a ballot
    投資／投资  ―  tóuzī  ―  to invest (literally, “to put in capital”)
  4. to fit in with
    脾氣相投／脾气相投  ―  píqì xiàngtóu  ―  to be alike in temperament
  5. to send
    投稿  ―  tóugǎo  ―  to submit a piece of writing
  6. to cast; to project
    同學們紛紛把目光投向他。 [MSC, trad.]
    同学们纷纷把目光投向他。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tóngxué men fēnfēn bǎ mùguāng tóu xiàng tā. [Pinyin]
    The classmates one by one cast their gaze towards him.
  7. to join; to go to
    投宿  ―  tóusù  ―  to lodge
    棄暗投明／弃暗投明  ―  qì'àntóumíng  ―  to give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one (literally, “to forsake darkness and come to the light”)
  8. (colloquial) to rinse (clothes) in water
  9. † Alternative form of 骰 (tóu, “dice; die”).

Compounds
Derived terms from 投

Japanese

Kanji
投

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to throw
  2. to discard
  3. abandon

Readings

Counter

投(とう) • (-tō) 

  1. (baseball) pitches

Korean

Hanja

投 • (tu) (hangeul 투)

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Vietnamese

Han character

投: Hán Nôm readings: đầu, nhầu

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