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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木土土山 (DGGU), four-corner 44911, composition)

  1. bent or twisted piece of wood
  2. radius (bone of the forearm)
  3. paddle, oar

References

  • KangXi: page 552, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15521
  • Dae Jaweon: page 941, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1286, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6A48

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːw
*rŋaːws, *ŋjew
*ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
*ŋ̥ʰreːw
*hŋreːw
*hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
*hŋjew, *hŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ŋjaws
*ŋjew, *ʔŋew
*ŋjew
*ŋjew
*ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
*ŋjewʔ
*njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
*ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
*ŋ̥ʰew
*ɡew, *ɡews
*ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
*ŋkeːw
*kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːw
*ŋeːws
*hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːw
*hŋeːwʔ
*hŋeːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rŋaːws, *ŋjew) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *ŋeːw).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (38) (12)
Final () (91) (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇu/ /ɳˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛu/ /ɳᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjæu/ /nauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiaw/ /ɳaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɛu/ /nauH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭɛu/ /nauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ɛu/ /nauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ráo nào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
náo ráo
Middle
Chinese
‹ nræwH › ‹ nyew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[n]ˤrew-s/ /*[ŋ]ew/ (< uvular?)
English bent wood oar

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 14660 14669
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rŋaːws/ /*ŋjew/

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yo) (hangeul , revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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