杜

杜 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木土 (DG), four-corner 4491₀, composition ⿰木土)

• 𠴗, 𢭰, 𬇩, 𨧀, 𬭊, 荰, 𥮊, 𧹥, 𬼦, 𨁥, 𪳌

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 512, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14477
• Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1157, character 2
• Unihan data for U+675C

Historical forms of the character 杜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

杜

1. birch-leaved pear (Pyrus betulifolia)
2. to stop; to prevent; to block

   防微杜漸／防微杜渐  ―  fángwēidùjiàn  ―  to nip in the bud

3. to reject
4. (obsolete) to pound; to strike
5. (obsolete, dialectal) astringent
6. (obsolete, dialectal) root
7. Asarum forbesii
8. Pollia japonica
9. name of an ancient pre-Qin state located in present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi
10. a surname

    杜甫  ―  Dù Fǔ  ―  Du Fu (Tang dynasty Chinese poet)

Others:

• → English: Du, Tu, To, Toh

Possibly be a Kra-Dai substrate word; compare Zhuang duz (classifier for animals), which is a prefix found in the vocabulary for many animals like duzgip (“centipede”), duzgyau (“spider”) and duzlingz (“monkey”) (Zhao, 1991; Tu, 2018).

杜

1. (Eastern Min, Southern Min) Prefix found in the names of certain animals.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. careless
2. woods; grove
3. Chinese family name "Du"

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: と (to)
• Kun: もり (mori, 杜)、ふさぐ (fusagu, 杜ぐ)、やまなし (yamanashi, 杜)

杜(もり) • (mori) 

1. a shrine grove
2. a forest

• 杜(もり)の都(みやこ) (mori no miyako): lit. City of Trees. Nickname for Sendai, Japan
• 鎮守(ちんじゅ)の杜(もり) (chinju no mori): grove of the village shrine

杜(やまなし) • (yamanashi) 

1. wild Japanese pear or mountain pear

杜(と) • (To) 

1. Du Fu, Chinese poet

杜 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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杜: Hán Việt readings: đỗ (動(động)五(ngũ)切(thiết))^[1][2][3][4], đổ^[5]
杜: Nôm readings: đỗ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}, đậu^{[3][7][4][5][6]}, đổ^[2][3][7], dỏ^[4][5][6], đũa^[1][3], đỏ^[3][7], dỗ^[1], đủ^[1], giỗ^[1], rổ^[1], trỗ^[1]

1. chữ Hán form of Đỗ (“a surname”).

   杜氏海燕 ― Đỗ Thị Hải Yến