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焦

焦

See also: 焳

Translingual

Han character

焦 (radical 86 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人土火 (OGF), four-corner 20331, composition ⿱隹灬)

  1. burned, scorched
  2. anxious, vexed

References

  • KangXi: page 674, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19119
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1086, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2212, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7126

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 焦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (焦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
癄 *ʔsrews
焦 *ʔsew
蕉 *ʔsew
鷦 *ʔsew
僬 *ʔsew, *ʔsews, *zew
噍 *ʔsew, *zews
膲 *ʔsew
鐎 *ʔsew, *zew
蟭 *ʔsew
燋 *ʔsew, *ʔsewɢ
醮 *ʔsews
潐 *ʔsews
趭 *ʔsews, *zews, *lews
樵 *zew
譙 *zew
憔 *zew
劁 *zew, *zews
顦 *zew
嶕 *zew
撨 *zew, *seːw
穛 *ʔsreːwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 焦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即消切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siaw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 焦 焦
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiāo jiāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjew › ‹ tsjew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*S.tew/ /*S.tew/
English burn, scorch Jiao (place name)

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 焦
Reading # 1/1
No. 6341
Phonetic
component		 焦
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 焦
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsew/

Definitions

焦

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

焦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

焦 (tiêu)

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