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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金火月 (CFB), four-corner 89127, composition)

  1. melt, fuse
  2. market, sell
  3. to pass time, finish, cancel

References

  • KangXi: page 1306, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40424
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1808, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4206, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+92B7

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *slewɢs
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw
*sreːw, *sew
*sreːw, *sreːws
*sreːws
*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
*sreːws
*sreːws
*sʰewʔ
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*sʰews
*zews
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*sew
*slew
*sew
*slew, *slews
*slewɢs
*l'ewʔ
*seːw, *sleːw
*seːw
*slewɢ
*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siaw/
Li
Rong
/siɛu/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13743
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sew/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 銷夏
  • 銷却
  • 銷沈

Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tiêu, tiu, toẻ)

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