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肖
肖
Translingual
Han character
肖 (radical 130 肉+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火月 (FB), four-corner 90227, composition ⿱⺌⺼)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 973, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29263
- Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2045, character 6
- Unihan data for U+8096
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
肖 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: hsiao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiaw
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ciu3
- Yale: chiu
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsiu3
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰiːu̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siàu / siau
- Tâi-lô: siàu / siau
- Phofsit Daibuun: siaux, siaw
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiaʊ²¹/, /ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiaʊ⁴¹/, /ɕiaʊ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaʊ²¹/, /ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiaʊ¹¹/, /ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiaʊ²¹/, /ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
- Note: siàu - literary; siau - vernacular (俗).
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 私妙切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siᴇuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/siɛuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjæuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/siawH/ |
| Li Rong |
/siɛuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/sĭɛuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si̯ɛuH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiào |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 肖 | 肖 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
xiāo | xiào |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ sjew › | ‹ sjewH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[s]ew/ | /*[s]ew-s/ |
| English | disappear | resemble |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 肖 | 肖 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13754 | 13755 |
| Phonetic component |
肖 | 肖 |
| Rime group |
宵 | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
宵 | 𥬇 |
| Old Chinese |
/*slew/ | /*slews/ |
| Notes | 見莊子史記 | 從肉小會消瘠意，小非聲，與後起從肉肖聲翟聲字同源 |
Definitions
肖
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Usage notes
Also xiāo, is often used instead of 萧(蕭).
Japanese
Kanji
肖
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
肖 • (cho, so) (hangeul 초, 소, revised cho, so, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, so, Yale cho, so)
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Vietnamese
Han character
肖 (tiếu, tiêu)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 肖
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 梢 | *sreːw |
| 捎 | *sreːw, *sew |
| 筲 | *sreːw |
| 鞘 | *sreːw, *slewɢs |
| 艄 | *sreːw |
| 蛸 | *sreːw, *sew |
| 髾 | *sreːw |
| 輎 | *sreːw |
| 旓 | *sreːw |
| 弰 | *sreːw |
| 鮹 | *sreːw, *sew |
| 綃 | *sreːw, *sew |
| 颵 | *sreːw |
| 莦 | *sreːw, *sew |
| 娋 | *sreːw, *sreːws |
| 稍 | *sreːws |
| 哨 | *sreːws, *sʰews, *sew |
| 揱 | *sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ |
| 潲 | *sreːws |
| 睄 | *sreːws |
| 悄 | *sʰewʔ |
| 俏 | *sʰews |
| 峭 | *sʰews |
| 陗 | *sʰews |
| 帩 | *sʰews |
| 誚 | *zews |
| 消 | *sew |
| 宵 | *sew |
| 霄 | *sew |
| 硝 | *sew |
| 銷 | *sew |
| 逍 | *sew |
| 魈 | *sew |
| 痟 | *slew |
| 焇 | *sew |
| 肖 | *slew, *slews |
| 韒 | *slewɢs |
| 趙 | *l'ewʔ |
| 箾 | *seːw, *sleːw |
| 踃 | *seːw |
| 削 | *slewɢ |
| 矟 | *sreːwɢ |