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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田日 (YTWA), four-corner 35306)

  1. come across, meet with, encounter

References

  • KangXi: page 1264, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39082
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1759, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3875, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+906D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluːu
*ʔsluː
*ʔsluː, *zluː
*zluː
*zluː
*zluː, *zluːs
*zluː
*zluː
褿 *zluː
*zluː
*lju, *zluːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsluː) : semantic  (movement) + phonetic  (OC *zluː) – to meet with (on the road).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡saw/
Li
Rong
/t͡sɑu/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsaw ›
Old
Chinese
/*tsˤu/
English encounter (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1149
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsluː/

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jo) (hangeul , revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tao)

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