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綢

綢

See also: 绸

Translingual

Han character

綢 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月土口 (VFBGR), four-corner 27920)

  1. silk cloth, satin damask

References

  • KangXi: page 926, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27546
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3417, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7DA2

Chinese

trad. 綢
simp. 绸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (周) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
裯 *tuːw, *dɯw, *do
啁 *tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
禂 *tuːwʔ
綢 *tʰuːw, *dɯw
翢 *tʰuːw, *duːw
錭 *duːw
雕 *tɯːw
凋 *tɯːw
琱 *tɯːw
鯛 *tɯːw
鵰 *tɯːw
彫 *tɯːw
奝 *tɯːw
調 *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
蜩 *dɯːw
惆 *tʰɯw
婤 *tʰɯw, *tjɯw
稠 *dɯw
椆 *dɯw, *tjɯws
周 *tjɯw
輖 *tjɯw
賙 *tjɯw
郮 *tjɯw
晭 *tjɯwʔ
倜 *tʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 綢
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰou³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰou⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰəu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰəu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰəu²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰəu³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰəɯ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəu¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰəu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zɤ²³/
Suzhou /zɤ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zei²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂəu¹³/
Xiangtan /ɖ͡ʐəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɨu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰu¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiu³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiu³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tiu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdiu³¹/
Rime
Character 綢 綢
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 土刀切 直由切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑu/ /ɖɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑu/ /ɖiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑu/ /ȡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰaw/ /ɖuw/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑu/ /ȡiu/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑu/ /ȡĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑu/ /ȡʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tāo chóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 綢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]riw/
English bind round

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 綢 綢
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17508 17527
Phonetic
component		 周 周
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 饕 儔
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰuːw/ /*dɯw/
Notes 通作韜

Definitions

綢

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Compounds

  • 印度綢／印度绸
  • 塔手綢／塔手绸
  • 寧綢／宁绸
  • 府綢／府绸
  • 彩綢／彩绸
  • 拷綢／拷绸
  • 未雨綢繆／未雨绸缪 (wèi yǔ chóumóu)
  • 綢紋紙／绸纹纸
  • 綢緞／绸缎
  • 綢繆／绸缪 (chóumóu)
  • 綾羅綢緞／绫罗绸缎
  • 綿綢／绵绸
  • 繭綢／茧绸 (jiǎnchóu)
  • 莨綢／莨绸

Japanese

Kanji

綢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

綢 • ‎(ju, jo, do) (hangeul 주, 조, 도, revised ju, jo, do, McCune-Reischauer chu, cho, to, Yale cwu, co, to)

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Vietnamese

Han character

綢 (trù, điều)

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