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腰
腰
Translingual
Han character
腰 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月一田女 (BMWV), four-corner 71244, composition ⿰⺼要)
References
- KangXi: page 989, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29705
- Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2094, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8170
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
腰 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (要) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 腰 | *qew |
| 要 | *qew, *qews |
| 葽 | *qew, *qews, *qeːw, *qeːwʔ |
| 喓 | *qew |
| 闄 | *qewʔ |
| 偠 | *qeːwʔ |
| 騕 | *qeːwʔ |
| 婹 | *qeːwʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qew) : semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 要 (OC *qew, *qews).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yêu
- Min Dong (BUC): iĕu
- Min Nan (POJ): iau / io
- Wu (Wiktionary): iau (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ
- Wade-Giles: yao1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iau
- IPA (key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jiu1
- Yale: yīu
- Cantonese Pinyin: jiu1
- IPA (key): /jiːu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yêu
- Hakka Romanization System: ieu´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yeu1
- IPA: /i̯eu̯²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yêu
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)ieu´
- Hagfa Pinyim: yeu1
- IPA: /(j)i̯eu̯²⁴/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: iĕu
- IPA (key): /ieu⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iau
- Tâi-lô: iau
- Phofsit Daibuun: iaw
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʊ³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʊ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io
- Tâi-lô: io
- Phofsit Daibuun: ioy
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iɤ³³/
- IPA (Taipei): /io⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Xiamen): /iɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɤ⁴⁴/
- Note: iau - literary; io - vernacular.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: iau (T1)
- IPA (key): /iɔ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 於霄切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔiᴇu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔiɛu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔjæu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔiaw/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔiɛu/ |
| Wang Li |
/ĭɛu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔi̯ɛu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yāo |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yāo |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ʔjiew › |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔew/ |
| English | waist |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 腰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14747 |
| Phonetic component |
要 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
要 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qew/ |
Definitions
腰
Compounds
Derived terms from 腰
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Japanese
Kanji
腰
Readings
Noun
腰 (hiragana こし, romaji koshi)
- waist, the (lower) back, the small of the back
- (anatomy) hip
- the skirting of a shoji
- the third line of a tanka poem
Derived terms
- 腰掛ける (koshikakeru): sit down
See also
Korean
Hanja
腰 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)
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