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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木火月 (DFB), four-corner 49927, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 530, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14866
  • Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1213, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+68A2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
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 () (21)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠau/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨw/
Li
Rong
/ʃau/
Wang
Li
/ʃau/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13710
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːw/

Definitions

  1. pointed tip of something long like a branch
  2. rudder

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana こずえ, romaji kozue)

  1. treetop

Proper noun

(hiragana こずえ, romaji Kozue)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sao)

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