毒

毒 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 9 strokes in simplified Chinese, cangjie input 手一田卜戈 (QMWYI), four-corner 5050₇, composition ⿱龶母(GKV) or ⿱龶毋(HTJ))

• 瑇 碡 蝳 䓯 纛 𠉩 𠷮 𢃶 𢝂 𭡡 𣕬 𣥽 𤚚 𧛔 𨂭 𨍛 𩹝(𬶡) 𣫹 𤸚 𣫵 𣫶 𭖪 𦑢 𧔄

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 589, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16730
• Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2382, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6BD2

Historical forms of the character 毒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) - a woman wearing a feathered ornament - original form of 纛 (OC *duːɡs, *duːɡ). If this is the correct interpretation, see also 每.

Alternatively, Li Xueqin (2012) proposes it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'uːɡ) : semantic 屮 (“vegetation”) + phonetic 毐 (OC *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ), meaning "a type of poisonous plant."

“poison”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duk ~ tuk (“poison; to poison”). Cognate with Tibetan དུག (dug, “poison; toxin”), གདུག (gdug), གདུག་པ (gdug pa, “vicious; evil; poisonous”), Burmese တောက် (tauk, “to suffer from toxicity; to be ill; to be poisonous”).

“to poison” (Pronunciation 2)

A departing tone variant, meaning “to poison”, is preserved in southern varieties, including Cantonese, Hakka, Min, southern Gan, and southern Wu. It is derived from the sense “poison” with the *–s suffix in Old Chinese.

“nerdy”

Derived from 毒撚.

毒

1. poison; toxin; venom; bane

   有毒  ―  yǒudú  ―  poisonous

2. ^† calamity; disaster; trouble
3. ^† pain; suffering
4. ^† crime; evil
5. to poison; to administer poison to

   毒死蟑螂  ―  dúsǐ zhāngláng  ―  to kill cockroaches with poison

6. ^† to harm; to injure
7. ^† to hate; to resent
8. ^† Alternative form of 督 (dū, “to manage; to govern”)
9. poisonous; noxious

   毒蛇  ―  dúshé  ―  venomous snake

   毒氣／毒气  ―  dúqì  ―  poisonous gas

10. ^† heavy; thick
11. (figurative) pernicious influence; harmful influence

    餘毒／余毒  ―  yúdú  ―  residual poison

12. severe; fierce; violent

    外面的太陽很毒。 [MSC, trad.]
    外面的太阳很毒。 [MSC, simp.]

    Wàimiàn de tàiyáng hěn dú. [Pinyin]

    The sun outside is very fierce.

13. malicious; cruel; sinister

    他的心腸真毒！／他的心肠真毒！  ―  Tā de xīncháng zhēn dú!  ―  How cruel is he!

14. (literary, or in compounds) narcotics; narcotic drugs

    吸毒  ―  xīdú  ―  to take drugs (of illicit or recreational nature)

    販毒／贩毒  ―  fàndú  ―  to traffic in narcotics

15. (Hong Kong Cantonese) nerdy

• (narcotics): 毒品 (dúpǐn)

Others:

• → Vietnamese: thuốc (“drug”)
• → Zhuang: doeg (“poison; to poison; evil”)

毒

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Min, colloquial) to poison; to administer poison to

毒

1. Used in 毒冒, which is an alternative form of 玳瑁 (dàimào)

毒

1. (Northern Wu) Alternative form of 踱 (8doq, “dumb,dull”)

• “毒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. poison

• Go-on: どく (doku, Jōyō)、だい (dai)
• Kan-on: とく (toku)、たい (tai)
• Kun: そこなう (sokonau, 毒なう)、わるい (warui, 毒い)、ぶす (busu)

• (Tokyo) どく [dòkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [do̞kɯ̟]

• Homophone: 退く

毒(どく) • (doku) 

1. poison, toxin

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

毒

Wikisource

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• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [to̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [독]

毒 (eumhun 독 독 (dok dok))

1. hanja form^? of 독 (“poison”)

• 독약 (毒藥, dogyak, “poison”)
• 해독 (解毒, haedok, “detoxification”)
• 독사 (毒蛇, doksa, “venomous snake”)

毒 (eumhun 거북 대 (geobuk dae))

1. Alternative form of 玳 (“hanja form^? of 대 (“turtle”)”)
2. Alternative form of 瑇 (“hanja form^? of 대 (“turtle”)”)

毒: Hán Nôm readings: độc, nọc

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