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See also: 瀧 and 泷

滝 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜廿山 (EYTU), four-corner 3011₆, composition ⿰氵竜)

• 瀧 (Traditional Chinese and Japanese kyūjitai)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 643, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18067
• Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1706, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6EDD

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02335-001

滝

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 瀧)

1. waterfall, cascade
2. rapids

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC laewng); compare Mandarin 瀧／泷 (lóng):

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC luwng); compare Mandarin 瀧／泷 (lóng):

• Go-on: ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC sraewng); compare Mandarin 瀧／泷 (shuāng):

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: たき (taki, 滝, Jōyō)
• Nanori: らき (raki)

/taki₁/ → /taki/

From Old Japanese.

• (Tokyo) たき [tàkí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠kʲi]

滝(たき) • (taki) 

1. waterfall
   • c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 8, poem 1035), text here (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 54)

     滝(たき)の音(おと)は絶(た)えて久(ひさ)しくなりぬれど名(な)こそ流(なが)れてなほ聞(き)こえけれ

     taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere

     The waterfall's sound faded into nothingness a long time ago―but its name has come down still to be heard today.^[2]

2. (archaic) rapids
   • , text here

     伊波婆之流(いはばしる)多伎(たき)毛登杼呂尓(もとどろに)鳴(なく)蝉(せみ)乃(の)許恵乎之伎氣婆(こゑをしきけば)京師(みやこ)之於毛保由(しおもほゆ) [Man'yōgana]

     石(いは)走(ばし)る滝(たき)もとどろに鳴(な)く蝉(せみ)の声(こゑ)をし聞(き)けば都(みやこ)し思(おも)ほゆ [Modern spelling]

     iwa-bashiru taki mo todoro ni naku semi no koe o shikikeba miyako shi omōyu

     (please add an English translation of this example)

• (waterfall): 瀑(ばく)布(ふ) (bakufu)
• (rapids): 急流(きゅうりゅう) (kyūryū), 滝川(たきがわ) (takigawa)

滝(たき) • (Taki) 

1. A placename.
2. a surname

滝 (eumhun 젖을 롱 (jeojeul rong), word-initial (South Korea) 젖을 농 (jeojeul nong))

1. Alternative form of 瀧

• Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [1]

• 瀧 (sông)^[1][2]
• 瀧 (rồng)^[1]
• 雙 (suông)^[1]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 竜 (long)

滝: Nôm readings: sông^[3][4][1][2], lùng^[3][4], sòng^[3], suồng^[3], trong^[3], rông^[1], rồng^[1], suông^[1], long^[5]

1. Nôm form of sông (“river”).