佗

佗 (radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人十心 (OJP), four-corner 2321₁, composition ⿰亻它)

• KangXi: page 98, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 513
• Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 139, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4F57

Historical forms of the character 佗
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05735 Transcribed ancient scripts L32376 L32377 L32378 L32379 L32380 L32381 L08474 L08475 L08476
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl) : semantic 人 (“human”) + phonetic 它 (OC *l̥ʰaːl).

佗

1. Alternative form of 馱／驮 (tuó, “to carry on one's back”).

佗

1. Alternative form of 他 (tā).
2. A surname​.

Probably from 底 (Yang, 2002):

• tai → ta (→ taʔ);
• tue → to (→ toʔ).

佗

1. (Hokkien) which

   • 來問自己，還欠佗一項 [Taiwanese, trad.]
     来问自己，还欠佗一项 [Taiwanese, simp.]

     From: 2016, 黃妃 (Huang Fei) (lyricist 謝誌豪), 囍

     lâi mn̄g ka-tī, iáu khiàm tó chi̍t hāng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     I ask myself, which am I still missing?

佗

1. (Hokkien) where

   • 參着咖啡過喉燒，不知你到底置佗 [Taiwanese, trad.]
     参着咖啡过喉烧，不知你到底置佗 [Taiwanese, simp.]

     From: 2011, 蕭煌奇 (Ricky Hsiao), 你置佗

     chham tio̍h ka-pi kòe âu sio, m̄ chai lí tàu-té tī toh [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • 夢對佗飛，未來佗位找 [Taiwanese, trad.]
     梦对佗飞，未来佗位找 [Taiwanese, simp.]

     From: 2016, 黃妃 (Huang Fei) (lyricist 方文良 [Neil Fang]), 雙生花

     bāng tùi toh poe, bī-lâi tó-ūi chhōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

佗

1. ^† to add; to impute

   • 舍彼有罪，予之佗矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shě bǐ yǒu zuì, yú zhī tuò yǐ. [Pinyin]

     He lets alone the guilty,
     And imputes guilt to me.

佗

1. Only used in 委佗, alternative form of 委蛇 (wēiyí).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): た (ta)
• Kun: ほか (hoka, 佗); わびる (wabiru, 佗びる)

佗 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a)

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佗 (đà)

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