tâu

• (Hokkien)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâu
  • Tâi-lô: tâu
  • Phofsit Daibuun: daau
  • IPA (Xiamen): /tau²⁴/
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /tau²⁴/
  • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tau¹³/
  • IPA (Taipei): /tau²⁴/
  • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tau²³/
• Rhymes: -au

1. Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 投 (colloquial)
2. Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 骰 (colloquial)

• “Query for tâu”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• 周长楫 [Zhou, Changji], editor (2006) 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (in Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, pages 264–265.

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 奏 (SV: tấu).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [təw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [təw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [təw˧˧]

tâu • (奏, 𠸫, 𬙖)

1. (archaic, historical) to report (to the king)
2. (colloquial) to report (on); to make a report (on something to curry favour)