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U+4FCF, 俏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FCF

[U+4FCE]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4FD0]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人火月 (OFB), four-corner 29227, composition)

  1. pretty, handsome, smart
  2. resemble, be like, similar

References

  • KangXi: page 104, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 221, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 159, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4FCF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *slewɢs
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sreːws
*sreːws
*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
*sreːws
*sreːws
*sʰewʔ
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*zews
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*slew
*sew
*slew, *slews
*slewɢs
*l'ewʔ
*seːw, *sleːw
*seːw
*slewɢ
*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰiawH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰiɛuH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13732
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰews/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. like
  2. similar
  3. resemble
  4. pretty
  5. disguise oneself as
  6. dress up
  7. pine away

Readings

  • On: せう (seu)
  • Kun: にる (niru), かたどる (katadoru), みめといさま (mimetoisama)

Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so)

  1. like
  2. similar
  3. resemble
  4. pretty