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蒿
蒿
Translingual
Han character
蒿 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜口月 (TYRB), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹高)
References
- KangXi: page 1050, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31634
- Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3267, character 15
- Unihan data for U+84BF
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
蒿 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 蒿
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 高 | *kaːw |
| 膏 | *kaːw, *kaːws |
| 篙 | *kaːw |
| 稿 | *kaːwʔ |
| 稾 | *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws |
| 槁 | *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ |
| 縞 | *kaːwʔ, *kaːws |
| 暠 | *kaːwʔ |
| 槀 | *kaːwʔ |
| 藁 | *kaːwʔ |
| 燺 | *kʰaːwʔ |
| 薧 | *kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw |
| 犒 | *kʰaːws |
| 蒿 | *qʰaːw |
| 藃 | *qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw |
| 豪 | *ɡaːw |
| 毫 | *ɡaːw |
| 壕 | *ɡaːw |
| 濠 | *ɡaːw |
| 鎬 | *ɡaːwʔ |
| 滈 | *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ |
| 鄗 | *ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ |
| 鰝 | *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ |
| 薃 | *ɡaːwʔ |
| 搞 | *kruːʔ |
| 敲 | *kʰraːw, *kʰraːws |
| 髇 | *qʰraːw |
| 嗃 | *qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ |
| 巐 | *kʰl'awʔ |
| 歊 | *qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ |
| 謞 | *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ |
| 熇 | *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ |
| 碻 | *kʰraːwɢ |
| 塙 | *kʰraːwɢ |
| 毃 | *kʰraːwɢ |
| 翯 | *qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ |
| 瀥 | *qʰraːwɢ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄠ
- Wade-Giles: hao1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hau
- IPA (key): /xɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hou1
- Yale: hōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: hou1
- IPA (key): /hou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
- Tâi-lô: o
- Phofsit Daibuun: oy
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɤ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蒿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 呼毛切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hɑu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hɑu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xɑu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/haw/ |
| Li Rong |
/xɑu/ |
| Wang Li |
/xɑu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xɑu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
hāo |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蒿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
hāo |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ xaw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰˤaw/ |
| English | Artemisia |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蒿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3744 |
| Phonetic component |
高 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
蒿 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰaːw/ |
Definitions
蒿
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
蒿
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Readings
Compounds
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Korean
Hanja
蒿 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)
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Vietnamese
Han character
蒿 (hao, khao)
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