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㕚

㕚

㕚	U+355A, 㕚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-355A

← 㕙
[U+3559]

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A

㕛 →
[U+355B]

Translingual

Han character

㕚 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 水戈戈 (EII), four-corner 1740₀, composition ⿰丶叉)

(ancient form of 爪) claws of birds or other animals
feet
to scratch, to claw
to grasp

References

KangXi: page 165, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 393, character 2

Unihan data for U+355A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		㕚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 㕚
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): zhǎo (zhao³)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˇ
  - Wade-Giles: chao³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jao
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zaau²
  - Yale: jáau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau²
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːu̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ʃˠau^X/▼

Rime
Character	㕚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	側絞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃˠau^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂᵚau^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃau^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂaɨw^X/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃau^X/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃau^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂau^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǎo

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ˤ<r>uʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	㕚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsræw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˤ<r>uʔ/
English	claw
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.

Definitions

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