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燥

燥

Translingual

Han character

燥 (radical 86 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火口口木 (FRRD), four-corner 96894, composition ⿰火喿)

  1. dry, parched, arid
  2. quick-tempered

References

  • KangXi: page 684, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19467
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1097, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2240, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+71E5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 燥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 燥
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (喿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藻 *ʔsaːwʔ
澡 *ʔslaːwʔ
璪 *ʔsaːwʔ
繰 *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁 *ʔsaːws
趮 *ʔsaːws
操 *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧 *sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆 *sʰaːwʔ
鄵 *sʰaːws
鐰 *zaːw, *sʰaw
臊 *saːw, *saːws
鱢 *saːw
燥 *saːwʔ, *saːws
噪 *saːws
髞 *saːws
喿 *saːws
譟 *saːws
劋 *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾 *soːwʔ, *srow

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇老切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sawX/
Li
Rong		 /sɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /sɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燥 燥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sào zào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sawH › ‹ sawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.sˤawʔ-s/ /*C.sˤawʔ/
English dry dry

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 燥 燥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16580 16581
Phonetic
component		 喿 喿
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 㛮
Old
Chinese		 /*saːwʔ/ /*saːws/

Definitions

燥

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Compounds

  • 乾燥／干燥 (gānzào)
  • 乾燥劑／干燥剂
  • 乾燥器／干燥器
  • 乾燥機／干燥机 (gānzàojī)
  • 乾燥氣候／干燥气候
  • 乾燥箱／干燥箱
  • 乾燥花／干燥花
  • 卬燥
  • 口乾舌燥／口干舌燥 (kǒugānshézào)
  • 口燥脣乾／口燥唇干
  • 天乾物燥／天干物燥
  • 推燥居濕／推燥居湿
  • 暴燥
  • 暴燥如雷
  • 枯燥 (kūzào)
  • 枯燥無味／枯燥无味
  • 炙冰使燥
  • 炮燥
  • 熱燥／热燥
  • 燠燥
  • 燥不搭的
  • 燥子
  • 燥屎
  • 燥溼
  • 燥灼
  • 燥熱／燥热
  • 燥皮
  • 燥脾
  • 爆燥
  • 爆燥如雷
  • 肉燥 (ròuzào)
  • 辣燥
  • 高燥
  • 鱉燥／鳖燥

Japanese

Kanji

燥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

燥 • ‎(jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燥 (táo, ráo)

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