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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水火月 (EFB), four-corner 39127, composition)

  1. vanish, die out
  2. melt away

References

  • KangXi: page 626, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17529
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1027, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1622, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6D88

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu²¹/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /siɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /siau²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiau²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiao⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /siɔo³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /siæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /siɔ³¹/
Tunxi /siu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /siau³³/
Xiangtan /siaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /siau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /seu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /siu⁵³/
Nanning /ɬiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /siu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siau²³/
/tiau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siaw/
Li
Rong
/siɛu/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ew/
English dissolve; disappear

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 # 1/1
No. 13739
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sew/

Definitions

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Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to disappear
  2. to extinguish

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu, teo, tiu)

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