Character: 渡
Modern (Beijing) reading: dù
Preclassic Old Chinese: dās (~ -ks)
Classic Old Chinese: dāh
Western Han Chinese: dāh
Eastern Han Chinese: dāh
Early Postclassic Chinese: dṑ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dṑ
Late Postclassic Chinese: dṑ
Middle Chinese: dò
English meaning : to cross (a river), ford [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) переправляться через реку; переправа, перевоз; 2) яп. выдать, передать
Comments: Hsieh-sheng suggests *dāk-s, but the word is rather late attested, and may go back to *dā-s; the old Vietnamese loanword d_ò 'ferry, ferry-boat' may go back to an unattested 平聲 *dā. The regular Sino-Vietnamese reflex of 渡 is d_ộ. For *d cf. Fuzhou to6; Siam. dhā́ (*dā).
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 6023
Karlgren code: 0801 b
Go-on: do
Kan-on: to
Japanese reading: to;wataru;watasu
Vietnamese reading: d_ò
