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召

召

召 U+53EC, 召
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EC
← 叫
[U+53EB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叭 →
[U+53ED]
See also: 叧

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

召 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹口 (SHR), four-corner 17602, composition ⿱刀口)

  1. imperial decree
  2. summon
  3. to call together, to convene, to summon
  4. temple or monastery (used in placenames in Inner Mongolia)

Derived characters

Widely used as phonetic:

Indirect characters:

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 172, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3241
  • Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 574, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 召

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 召 召
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 宵 (92) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 直照切 寔照切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiᴇuH/ /d͡ʑiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚiɛuH/ /d͡ʑiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiæuH/ /d͡ʑjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖiawH/ /d͡ʑiawH/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjɛuH/ /ʑiɛuH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭɛuH/ /ʑĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯ɛuH/ /ʑi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhào shào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 召 召
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shào zhào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyewX › ‹ drjewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]awʔ/ /*[d]raw-s/
English (place name) summon

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 召 召
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2126 2148
Phonetic
component		 刀 刀
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 召 邵
Old
Chinese		 /*dews/ /*djews/
Notes 同邵

Definitions

召

  1. imperial decree
  2. summon
  3. to call together, to convene, to summon
  4. temple or monastery (used in placenames in Inner Mongolia)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

召

  1. A surname​. (Shao)
  2. name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi province

Japanese

Kanji

召

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. To seduce.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

召 • ‎(so, jo) (hangeul 소, 조, revised so, jo, McCune-Reischauer so, cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

  • Nom Foundation
  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999


Etymology

Historical forms of the character 召
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽 *taːw
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *dews, *djews) : phonetic 刀 ‎(OC *taːw) + semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) – to call out (with one’s mouth).

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