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喬

喬

喬 U+55AC, 喬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55AC
← 喫
[U+55AB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喭 →
[U+55AD]
See also: 乔

Translingual

Han character

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

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. 喬
simp. 乔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喬
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (喬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
驕 *krew
嬌 *krew, *krewʔ, *ɡrew
憍 *krew, *kʰrew
穚 *krew
鷮 *krew, *ɡrew
蕎 *krew, *ɡrew
喬 *krew, *ɡrew
簥 *krew
撟 *krew, *krewʔ
矯 *krewʔ
鱎 *krewʔ
敽 *krewʔ
蟜 *krewʔ, *ɡrew
譑 *krewʔ, *kʰews
蹻 *krewʔ, *kʰew, *ɡrew, *kewɢ, *ɡewɢ
繑 *kʰew
鞽 *kʰrew
趫 *kʰrew, *ɡrew
嘺 *ɡew
橋 *ɡrew
僑 *ɡrew
鐈 *ɡrew
毊 *ɡrew, *qʰrew
轎 *ɡrew, *ɡrews
嶠 *ɡrews
獢 *qʰrew
屩 *kewɢ

夭 + 高.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喬 喬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 宵 (92) 宵 (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie 舉喬切 巨嬌切
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 喬
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 喬 喬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10332 10350
Phonetic
component		 喬 喬
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 驕 喬
Old
Chinese		 /*krew/ /*ɡrew/

Definitions

喬

  1. tall, lofty
  2. proud, stately

Japanese

Kanji

喬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

喬 • ‎(gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喬 (kiều)

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