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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹金女 (HCV), four-corner 21404, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 271, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1081, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5B03

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sraʔ
*so
*so
*so
*so

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/sio/
Shao
Rongfen
/sio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/suə̆/
Li
Rong
/sio/
Wang
Li
/sĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13957
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*so/

Definitions

  1. (archaic, used in the state of Chu) elder sister

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings