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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木火竹 (DFH), four-corner 49920, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 513, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1168, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+676A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
*sʰroːʔ
*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
*sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːws
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ, *mews
*mews
*mews
*sm̥ʰewʔ
*smewʔ
*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
*m̥ʰjewʔ
*senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miawX/
Li
Rong
/miɛuX/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]ewʔ/
English the utmost end

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13697
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mewʔ/

Definitions

  1. tip of twig, top of tree
  2. twig

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana こずえ, romaji kozue)

  1. treetop

Korean

Hanja

(cho) (hangeul , revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References