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趙
趙
See also: 赵
Translingual
Han character
趙 (radical 156 走+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土人火月 (GOFB), four-corner 49802)
References
- KangXi: page 1217, character 50
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37171
- Dae Jaweon: page 1686, character 37
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3488, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8D99
Chinese
| trad. | 趙 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赵 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 趙
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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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ewʔ) : semantic 走 + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: chao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaw
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ziu6, tiu5
- Yale: jiuh, tíuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dziu6, tiu5
- IPA (key): /t͡siːu̯²²/, /tʰiːu̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiǎu
- Tâi-lô: tiǎu
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiaʊ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiāu
- Tâi-lô: tiāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: diau
- IPA (Xiamen): /tiaʊ²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiaʊ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiǒ
- Tâi-lô: tiǒ
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɤ²²/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiō
- Tâi-lô: tiō
- Phofsit Daibuun: dioi
- IPA (Taipei): /tio³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɤ³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /tiɤ²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɤ²²/
- Note: tiǎu/tiāu - literary; tiǒ/tiō - vernacular.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 趙 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʈ͡ʂɑu⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /ʈ͡ʂau⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin |
/ʈ͡ʂɑu⁵³/ /t͡sɑu⁵³/ |
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| Jinan | /ʈ͡ʂɔ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /tʃɔ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʈ͡ʂau³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ʈ͡ʂau⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ʈ͡ʂɔ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʈ͡ʂɔ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʈ͡ʂɔ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʈ͡ʂɔ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sau³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sau¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡sao²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /ʈ͡ʂɔ²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʈ͡ʂɔo⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ʈ͡ʂɔ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sau⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /ʈ͡ʂɔ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡sɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zɔ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zæ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /d͡zɔ¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /d͡ʑiɛ³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕʰiɔ²²/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕʰio²⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʈ͡ʂau⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʈ͡ʂaɯ⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sʰɛu²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰau⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡siu²²/ |
| Nanning | /t͡siu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡siu²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/tʰiau²²/ /tio²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /tiɛu²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /tiau⁴²/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tio³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /t͡siau³³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 趙 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (92) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 治小切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɖˠiᴇuX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɖᵚiɛuX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ȡiæuX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɖiawX/ |
| Li Rong |
/ȡjɛuX/ |
| Wang Li |
/ȡĭɛuX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ȡʱi̯ɛuX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
zhào |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 趙 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13758 |
| Phonetic component |
肖 |
| Rime group |
宵 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
肇 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l'ewʔ/ |
Definitions
趙
- A surname, listed first in the Baijiaxing. It is the family name of the Song emperors.
- an ancient city-state, now Hongdong County in Shanxi
- a later and larger state during the Warring States period of Chinese history
Synonyms
- (Warring States period state): 趙國／赵国
Japanese
Kanji
趙
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
趙 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)
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Vietnamese
Han character
趙 (triệu)
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