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U+55AC, 喬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55AC

[U+55AB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55AD]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹大口月口 (HKRBR), four-corner 20227, composition ⿱⿵)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 200, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3990
  • Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 656, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+55AC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krew
*krew, *krewʔ, *ɡrew
*krew, *kʰrew
*krew
*krew, *ɡrew
*krew, *ɡrew
*krew, *ɡrew
*krew
*krew, *krewʔ
*krewʔ
*krewʔ
*krewʔ
*krewʔ, *ɡrew
*krewʔ, *kʰews
*krewʔ, *kʰew, *ɡrew, *kewɢ, *ɡewɢ
*kʰew
*kʰrew
*kʰrew, *ɡrew
*ɡew
*ɡrew
*ɡrew
*ɡrew
*ɡrew, *qʰrew
*ɡrew, *ɡrews
*ɡrews
*qʰrew
*kewɢ

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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (30)
Final () (92) (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiᴇu/ /ɡˠiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiɛu/ /ɡᵚiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiæu/ /ɡiæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kiaw/ /giaw/
Li
Rong
/kjɛu/ /ɡjɛu/
Wang
Li
/kĭɛu/ /ɡĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɛu/ /gi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāo qiáo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[N-k](r)aw/
English high, tall

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 10332 10350
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krew/ /*ɡrew/

Definitions

  1. tall, lofty
  2. proud, stately

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyo) (hangeul , revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(kiều)

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